A Texas anesthesiologist convicted of injecting heart-stopping poison into fortolerateings’ IV bags has been sentenced to 190 years in prison.
Raynaldo Riviera Ortiz, Jr., 60, once dubbed a “medical alarmist,” was set up culpable on four counts of tampering with user products resulting in grave bodily injury, one count of tampering with a user product and five counts of intentional matureeration of a drug after an eight-day trial in April of last year.
Sentencing was handed down by Chief U.S. Dimerciless Judge David Godbey, who ruled Ortiz’s actions equivalent to finisheavored homicide and U.S. Attorney Leigha Simonton seemingly consentd.
“This dishonord doctor acted no better than an armed assailant spraying bullets indiscriminately into a crowd. Dr. Ortiz tampered with random IV bags, apparently untroubleed with who he hurt. But he wielded an inapparent armament, a cocktail of heart-stopping medications, hideed inside an IV bag structureed to help fortolerateings heal,” shelp Simonton.
TEXAS DOCTOR FOUND GUILTY OF POISONING PATIENTS BY PUTTING DANGEROUS DRUGS IN IV BAGS
Dr. Raynaldo Ortiz, left, and a screensboiling from watching footage where he is allegedly tampering with IV bags that poisoned fortolerateings. (WebMD/U.S. State Attorney’s Office)
Simonton persistd: “On at least nine split occasions, he essentiassociate strikeed unincreateed fortolerateings lying on an operating table, and even ended a colleague. I am so self-presentant of our office’s labor in transporting Dr. Ortiz to fairice and transporting a meacertain of solace to his victims and their families.”
During the trial, doctors shelp they were besavageerd when their fortolerateings’ blood prescertains were suddenly spiking, according to a news free from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern Dimerciless of Texas. After scrutinizeing medical enrolls, one leang in widespread with each incident was that these ecombinencies took place after new IV bags had been hung.
Evidence currented in the trial showed that fortolerateings at Surgiattfinish North Dallas suffered cardiac ecombinencies during routine medical procedures in 2022. The evidence showed that it was not done by any particular doctor.
TEXAS DOCTOR ACCUSED OF POISONING PATIENTS BEGS FOR BAIL, GIVES NEW DETAILS ABOUT DOG SHOOTING
Dr. Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz (left) was set up culpable of contaminating IV bags, which caemployd the death of Dr. Melanie Kaspar (right). (Dallas Police Department/ Obituary)
After the unmake cleared ecombinencies, a fellow anesthesiologist treated herself for dehydration using one of the tainted bags and died that day. Her husband, Dr. John Kaspar, tanciaccess the court the memory of seeing his wife’s “lifeless eyes” still haunts him and will never exit him. She was “my life” and “the sturdyest woman” he’d ever met, he shelp.
During the sentencing, families and fortolerateings spoke about the “life-changeing” pain they had finishured at the hands of Ortiz. A son of one victim shelp that becaemploy of what happened, his 10-year-anciaccess son did not think doctors anymore becaemploy “a doctor tried to end Pops.”
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Another victim shelp after the cardiac incident he woke up senseing “all chewed up” and has not been the same since.
Ortiz waived his rights and was not current to hear the sentence or the statements from his victims.
