Anique Kasper, 11; Focus of AIDS Debate (1992)

In the early days of the AIDS crisis, dozens of children were infected with HIV through transfusions at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Now, a quarter-century later, a survivor and a bereaved father want answers and justice. Read the exclusive report.

If you are among those who received HIV-tainted blood at Cedars-Sinai, or if you have a personal story to share, please e-mail reporter Charles Ornstein at [email protected].

July 3, 1992 12 AM PT

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Anique Kasper, 11, who developed AIDS after a tainted blood transfusion at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 1980 and became the focus of a debate earlier this year over the obligations that hospitals and blood banks have to inadvertently infected patients, died early Wednesday in Dallas of the complications of AIDS.

She is survived by her parents, Bruce Kasper of Playa del Rey, and Nicole Pascale of Los Angeles.

She died en route home to Los Angeles from Connecticut, where she had spent a week at a camp for terminally ill children.

A service is to be held at 10 a.m. today at Hillside Memorial Park.