A Manhattan judge sentenced a doctor to the maximum sentence in jail after a jury found guilty of denying his wife required medical care and instead made the decision to bombard her with a deadly dose of supplements to receive treatment for an ailment she never had.
Identified as Jeffrey Harris, 59, will spend between five and 15 years behind bars after a ruling handed down on Friday by the death of his wife, Tammy Harris, who lost her life in Manhattan in 2018.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicated that a New York State Supreme Court jury, found the man guilty of second-degree murder “for killing her by giving her numerous supplements and alternative treatments, including poisonous levels of selenium, and preventing her from seeking treatment for lupus.”
According to officials, The woman began experiencing aches and pains in 2016, while they both resided in Washington state.
The doctors had determined that Tammy Harris suffered from an autoimmune disease, but her husband stepped in and took his wife’s care into his own handsprosecutors alleged.
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NEW: Today we announced the prison sentence of Dr. Jeffrey Harris following his trial conviction for ignoring medical advice and “experimenting on his wife, leading to her slow and painful death.” – D.A. Bragg. Read more here: https://t.co/KQEWroSBru
— Alvin Bragg (@ManhattanDA) December 15, 2023
The woman’s condition worsened a year after her diagnosis while under the care of Jeffrey Harris and a rotating medications that did not properly treat her lupus. In the summer of 2017, she was already bedridden after losing a lot of weight and having “severe jaundice.”
“[Harris] He went from one diagnosis to another and finally faked mercury poisoning and gave her such high doses of selenium that it eventually killed her. with his reckless treatment,” Bragg explained in a statement.
Despite being hospitalized a couple of times to improve her condition, Tammy Harris continued to return to her residence, where she was administered supplements “without her doctor’s knowledge”reported NBC New York.
Precisely It was at that time that her husband began giving her selenium to treat mercury poisoning.. She had not suffered mercury poisoning.
In the month of January 2018, the woman, who only weighed 80 pounds, was flown to Manhattan, where the Jeffrey Harris wanted to be treated at an alternative medical facility.
They performed tests on him, that he did not suffer from mercury poisoning and he had a “huge amount of selenium in his blood, more than 10 times the reference range.”
In February, Tammy Harris’s heart failed while she was staying at the Palace Hotel. She was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
“Jeffrey Harris betrayed his duty as a doctor and as a husband by ignoring all evidence and medical advice and experimenting on his wifewhich led to his slow and painful death,” Bragg said.
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