Rapist to get $800,000 heart transplant on taxpayers’ dime
23rd April 2011
13WHAM News has learned that a convicted rapist serving up to 40 years in prison, is being evaluated for a possible heart transplant.
The report goes on to estimate the cost of the procedure at $800,000. The bill, if the procedure is completed, would be paid by New York state taxpayers.
The felon in question, Kenneth Pike, 55, began serving time in 1996 after his conviction for raping and sodomizing a 13 year-old girl in Auburn, New York. Although the hospital admits having a patient with that name in their care in guarded condition, neither the hospital nor the New York State Department of Corrections would comment further on the matter.
Because that’s why they work so hard for that money. Sounds like another good reason to avoid New York — unless you’re a rapist.
April 23rd, 2011 at 15:34
Then he may make parole. He will truely have had a change of heart.
April 24th, 2011 at 14:41
I want to know if he really did it or not. If we have absolute certainty of his guilt, then I say give him reasonable support as he dies of natural causes and goes to his ultimate reward.