A 22-year-old woman who had a part in the posting of an HIV victim's medical records on the Internet was sentenced to a year in prison yesterday.
Rhonda Wong-Fernandez accessed the records while working at Straub Clinic and Hospital and gave the material to the victim's sister-in-law, Circuit Judge Randal Lee said in passing sentence.
The defendant's lawyer, Deputy Public Defender Alan Komogome, asked Lee for a sentence of probation, and Deputy Prosecutor Christopher Van Marter asked the judge to send Wong-Fernandez to jail for 30 days, followed by probation.
But Lee called the defendant's conduct "egregious" and said the year of imprisonment should serve as a deterrent and a warning to others "that this kind of conduct will not be tolerated."
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