ROKA, Cambodia, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- An unlicensed doctor faces a murder charge after he allegedly reused syringes and spread HIV to more than 100 people in a community in Cambodia's Battambang province.
Yem Chrin, 55, was charged in a provincial court after some 100 people he treated in the Roka commune were diagnosed with HIV since late November. At least one of his patients has died of AIDS.
"He is charged with one count of spreading HIV. The second charge is committing cruel murder," Heng Luy, deputy provincial prosecutor, told Al Jazeera. "He is also charged with violating medical ethics."
The alleged victims range in age from 5 to 74.
Chrin allegedly admitted to police he reused syringes on his patients.
"For every two or three people, he used one syringe," deputy provincial penal police chief Seng Luch told Cambodia Daily.
Should he be convicted, Chrin faces life in prison.
