HIV : a man on trial for knowingly infected his girlfriend

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Published the 16.10.2017 at 16h58

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A 54 year old man appears before the assizes of Seine-Saint-Denis for knowingly transmitting HIV to his partner with whom he had two children. This French of congolese origin will be held in Bobigny, france, for having, in Saint-Ouen, between 2005 and 2010, to be voluntarily administered substances harmful has resulted in a mutilation or permanent disability ” of his companion, born in 1980.

The victim shared the life of this man for four years when she discovered in October 2009 that she was suffering from the aids virus. By rummaging through the affairs of his spouse, she discovered that he was hiv-positive since 1996. None of the couple’s children, born in 2005 and 2007, having been contaminated and their mother being hiv-negative at the time of his birth, it is likely that she has been infected between 2007 and 2009.

“Fear of infecting her children”

“Today, my client is no longer the same woman. Everything has changed in his life. As she is sick, she cannot work anymore. Above all, it is in a state of stress ongoing because she was afraid of contaminating her children, ” her lawyer, quoted by AFP.

The lawyer of the accused acknowledges that his client “lacked courage” in him hiding his hiv-positive status. But if he “took his treatment in secret” and claimed to have a “heart murmur” to justify its diseased state, it is because he loved him and was ” afraid of losing “.

If the origin of contamination is not established, the accused, who was a carpenter until his dismissal in 2011, was married from 1994 to 2004 with a woman he knew to be HIV positive, says the AFP.

The accused is facing 15 years in prison. In December 2016, a man was sentenced to 12 years in prison by the court of assizes of the Gard, to have transmitted the aids virus to his girlfriend, aged 16 years, who had hidden his hiv positive status.