Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Killer who destroyed his own liver leapfrogs NY transplant list

A confessed Bronx wife-killer who destroyed his liver in a half-cocked suicide attempt blew past nearly 2,000 New Yorkers on the state’s transplant list to get a new organ, The Post has learned.

“It’s an outrage — a complete waste on a man who obviously had no regard for life,” said a friend of Jordania Sarita, 36, who cops say was stabbed to death by husband Johnny Concepcion on July 5.

Concepcion, 43, left New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center with his brand-new liver on Friday — and went straight to jail.

Sarita’s mother, Maria, told The Post: “There are people that wait years for a liver transplant. There are children on the waiting lists, people who work hard.

“And this guy who killed my daughter, who killed the mother of his children, then tried to take his life, gets priority over them? It doesn’t seem fair.”

Earlier this month, Sarita — married to Concepcion for 18 years and described by friends and family as a vivacious, devoted mom of three — was stabbed 15 times in her Needham Avenue home.

Witnesses said they saw Concepcion fleeing the scene on foot.

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