Brryan Jackson is a 19 year-old man from St. Louis, Missouri who expected to die fifteen years ago.
When Brryan was eleven months old his parent’s brief relationship began to flounder. Admitted to hospital with pneumonia and asthma, Brryan’s father, Brian Stewart, a lab technician who specialized in blood transfusions, crept into his son’s hospital room and injected baby Brryan with HIV-tainted blood to escape an obligation to pay child support to Brryan’s mother.
At first Bryyan’s physicians could not determine why he was weak and lethargic. At their wit’s end after conducting a multitude of tests, they randomly administered an AIDS test. To their shock, Bryyan tested positive and was given five months to live.
Brryan’s miracle is that today at 19 years old the virus has been undetectable for over two years and the toxicity of the anti-viral drug treatment has left him relatively unscathed with only a slight hearing loss and a minor speech impediment.
Meanwhile, Brryan’s father was convicted of first degree assault and sentenced to life imprisonment after authorities learned that he had previously threatened bodily harm by using tainted blood. He had also told Brryan’s mother that she shouldn’t attempt to obtain child support from him because Bryyan would not live past the age of five.
At his sentencing the judge excoriated him saying” You are no better than a war criminal” and “I believe when God finally calls you, you will burn in hell from here to eternity.”
It is difficult to imagine a more depraved individual than Brian Stewart. Unfortunately, he will be paroled this year.
Brryan says that with God’s help, he has forgiven his father and only wants to live his life to the full.
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