Exeter 'Serial Infector' Appeals Prison Sentence

EXETER, NH — David Kwiatkowski, the former Exeter Hospital worker who caused a hepatitis C outbreak that infected 32 patients, is appealing his prison sentence. In 2013, Kwiatkowski was sentenced to 39 years in prison. Kwiatkowski, who has hepatitis C, admitted to shooting himself up with patients' medication to get high then adding saline to the syringes to make them appear untouched.

The tainted syringes were then used on unsuspecting patients.

"I'm sorry for what I've done," Kwiatkowski said during his sentencing. "I belong in prison."

Kwiatkowski, who's serving his sentence in Florida, recently asked a judge to throw out his sentence, according to The Associated Press. He said his lawyer convinced him to plead guilty and his sentence should be reduced, the AP reported.

Authorities said Kwiatkowski, who worked as a traveling medical technician, infected more than a dozen other patients at hospitals across the country. A patient in Kansas died after contracting hepatitis C from him, prosecutors said.

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