The CEO of a company accused of giving contaminated drugs to hundreds of people that led to a meningitis outbreak in 2012 was acquitted on all second-degree murder charges.
A survivor of the contaminated drugs living in Central Florida said the CEO is getting off too easy.
Roseann Fusco said she still lives with the pain from the bad drugs every day.
"It's very painful and it affects my life and the things that I can do. I can't work out like I used to,” she said.
Fusco said she got the injury after she got an injection in her spine in 2012 with a drug produced by the New England Compounding Center (NECC) to help with spinal problems.
"The one shot I got, it was contaminated," Fusco said.
The contaminated drugs were linked to 64 deaths and about 700 injuries in 20 states.
Fusco said the drug led her to get fungal meningitis and MRSA.
At one point, she spent three months in the hospital.
"I didn't know what was happening to me because no one knew at that time,” she said.
NECC’s CEO Barry Cadden was convicted of racketeering and mail fraud but was acquitted on all 25 counts of second-degree murder.
Fusco was there for part of the trial in Massachusetts over the last few weeks.
“I don't think that justice was served,” she said. “I would say to him, ‘Shame on you. You take an oath to protect the people.’"
Fusco said she's grateful she survived her ordeal but worries about what side effects may still be to come.
"It's scary that not even the doctors know. No one knows what's going to happen. What might happen, if it's still lying dormant in our systems,” she said.
Cadden will be sentenced on June 21.
He faces more than 20 years in prison.
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