Just a Scapegoat for Children infected with AIDS in Bulgaria

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    In Libya, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestine doctor, are on retrial for having infected children AIDS. No they didn't take needles filled with the disease, they are simply caregivers that worked at an unsanitary location in hopes of making someone's life better. The children had signs of AIDS before these six people even worked at the Benghazi hospital. Specialists determined that the disease was already present in the hospital before these Doctors even came and evidence has proven this. These people were already sentenced to death once, but it was sent to a retrial. Libyans are rooting for a conviction.
    When the evidence is presented to the prosecuting attorney he claims that the cargivers infected the children with a genetically engineered strand of the disease denying the DNA evidence stating that the disease was in their systems long before the doctors came because of the evolution of the AIDS virus. One of the nurses was dismayed during her trial and said that she spent only six months of the seven years she has spent in Libya working as a nurse, the other time she has spent in prison. Libyan leader Gadhafi even asked the Bulgarian government for compensation to the children's families, Sofia (the Bulgarian leader) refused seeing it as admitting that the nurses were guilty.
      Okay this is crazy. If they had such direct contact with the AIDS virus, I'm sure they would have caught it. Maybe not all of them, but at least one. We all slip up when doing things and the fact that all six of them don't have the AIDS virus and the children had signs beforehand show that they aren't to blame. I'm glad this case went to retrial and I just hope that when the verdict is read tomorrow it is favorable to the nurses and doctor. This seems like an easy way out of a sticky situation for the people. That it would be the easiest thing to do throw the blame somewhere rather than look at all the contributing factors. I just hope more innocent people don't die in vain for something they have no control in.

conductor's picture

When can we talk about the real problem.... the millions of people with AIDS?

Jenni's picture

Yeah, it seems like they look past this and instead try to point fingers and use scapegoats instead of realizing there is a huge problem that needs to be dealt with. Not just by pointing the finger but by taking action and actually working to clean up conditions and make things better.

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