SAN DIEGO (AP) - A San Diego County man convicted of claiming he was a doctor who could cure the virus that causes AIDS has been given five years in prison.
A judge sentenced Keith Barton of La Mesa on Friday. A jury found Barton guilty in January of six felony counts of treating patients without a medical license and several other crimes.
Prosecutors said Barton impersonated a real doctor with the same name, charging $18,000 for a treatment he claimed would cure a woman and her children of HIV.
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The San Diego County district attorney’s office called the case “a reminder that consumers need to be particularly wary of unapproved ’miracle’ cures.”
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