Man jailed for infecting teenager with HIV

Tuesday, 31 August 2010
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/man-jailed-for-infecting-teenager-with-hiv-2066813.html

The court sentenced this 31-year-old man to a year imprisonment after he had pleaded guilty of knowingly putting the life of a 19-year old woman at danger for contracting the HIV-virus. She got pregnant and after she had some blood tests became clear she has gotten the virus. Luckily the baby did not get infected. The judge also gave the man a five-year sexual offences prevention order, which prohibits him of having sex without proper protection or without telling his partners about the HIV-virus. He was also sentenced for another year for viciously attacking a man, proving that he is a menace to others.

This is your worst nightmare becomes true. It is terrible for that young girl, first knowing that you have contracted the virus and second having to live in fear that your unborn child can get it too. Thank God for the medical advances, which helps to prevent that unborn children get infected with such life- threatening diseases. That is a cruel reality that changes your live forever. Nonetheless she was brave enough, in spite of all, to bring her offender to trial. She has caused him not to be able to put other innocent women at risk.