HIV-infected man jailed for unprotected sex
Published: 25 Jan 12 12:11 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/38718/20120125/
A 20-year-old man from Malmö, southern Sweden, was sentenced to eight months in prison for not telling eight women that he was infected with HIV before having sex with them.
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The 20-year-old has been previously brought to the attention of the Skåne region's Centre for Communicable Disease Control (Smittskydd Skåne), for neglecting his regular contact with the hospital, and for having had unprotected sex with his girlfriend for two and half years without informing her about his condition.
She reported him to the police in December, 2010. Ensuing media reports about the incident resulted in seven other women coming forward too, affirming their own sexual relations with the man.
In an interview with Sweden's TV4, the man's ex-girlfriend claimed to have been told, "No, I don't have HIV. You don't need to worry, they're just rumours."
The man has been infected with HIV since birth and had been wanted by police since July 2011 when a court ruled he should be placed in isolation.
The man turned himself in to police upon learning that TV3 planned to publish his photograph in October 2011 on the channel's "Efterlyst" ('Wanted') programme.
The convicted man will be forced to pay a total of 220,000 kronor ($32,620) to the eight women, none of whom was infected with the disease.
The alleged crimes were committed in Malmo, Tomelilla, Eslöv and Bunkeflostrand between the autumn of 2008 and the summer of 2011. Most of the victims were in their late teens at the time.
The court says the sentence is light due to the man’s young age at the time of the crimes.
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This case is the more complex for the feelings one must have for this wretched person.
Thank God the girls were not infected.
But, come on, informing occasional partners that you have HIV before having sex with them... how many would do that and still hope to have any protected sex with anybody at all? would you have protected sex with someone just met in a pub if he/she tells you that is affected by HIV?
If a person affected by HIV must inform any sexual partner about his/her disease even in case of protected sex, then I do not see any chance of sexual life at all for him/her; and the same should then be valid for hepatitis B and C (that kill every year many more people than AIDS) and a few more sexually transmittable diseases...
Would not make more sense to just underline once more that doing unprotected sex with unknown people is a risky behavior that should be avoided at any cost?
you are right.. it is about avoiding getting infected! not about avoiding infecting people!! just like when u drive.. u never know when someone is gonna crash you! you must drive in a defensive way not just drive safely..
Life is full of risks and dangers.. if we can not eradicate a problem or a situation then it is wiser to deal with it in a proper way.. do not blame getting infected! blame yourself for not taking precautions :)
I recomend him lethal injection. He has proven to be a monster.
if u were that kid.. would you recomend yourself a lethal injection? i wonder if u were mature enough when you were 20 and I wonder if you could have been ablwe to avoid having sex.. I hope you would! ;)
You need to question the sanity of the girl who was interviewed for TV!
$32k in damages shared over 8 people? Flat out insulting and a stab in the face.
"The convicted man will be forced to pay a total of 220,000 kronor ($32,620) to the eight women, none of whom was infected with the disease."
i just don't understand the above. so did he use a condom or what???
doesn't he have name and surname? 8 months or 8 years???
your ignorance and bigotry is truly astounding.
So are you suggesting that no swede can be born with HIV ?
Are you saying that only immigrants can possibly be unfortunate enough to be born with this disease?
You are a fool
You are a fool if you don't realise that mass immigration has caused the HIV rates to increase exponentially in a nation which had Europe's lowest HIV infection rates pre-1990s.
But hey, who cares about the introduction of deadly diseases, violence and primitive culture, when we now have so many lovely different colours of faces to look at in Malmo. Yay, it's like a Benetton ad...