Debate- fucking w/ aids- crime or not

[IkeaBoy]

inspired by the following article-- if you have AIDS and know you have AIDS and fuck someone thus infecting them- should that be a crime? If yes, how much time should they get?

HIV-positive athlete freed on bail
From the National Desk
Published 5/3/2002 4:17 PM


HURON, S.D., May 3 (UPI) -- An 18-year-old college basketball player charged with intentionally exposing a woman to HIV was released on bail after pleading not guilty to three counts of recklessly spreading the virus linked to AIDS.

Nikko Briteramos was released from the Beadle County Jail Thursday afternoon after posting $10,000 bail. Circuit Court Judge Jon Erickson had refused to free him on a personal recognizance bond. His next court appearance was scheduled in June, with trial set for July 24.

Briteramos was charged last week with five felony counts of having unprotected sex with a woman without disclosing he had HIV. He faces 15 years in prison and a $15,000 fine on each count under a South Dakota law enacted two years ago that makes it a felony for HIV-infected people to expose others without their consent.

Two Aberdeen, S.D., men became the second and third people charged under the state's HIV law this week. The Sioux Falls Argus Leader said J.L. Woods, 41, was accused of concealing his infection in four incidents involving three men. His roommate, William Jenigen, 35, was charged with six counts involving three victims.

Health officials tested 13 people for HIV in Aberdeen.

Briteramos, a 6-foot-7 Chicago native and freshman basketball player at Si Tanka Huron University, learned he was HIV positive on March 27 after donating blood in February. He played forward on the Screaming Eagles basketball team at the small school with an enrollment of only 400 students.

Gov. Bill Jankilow said the teen may have given a young woman a death sentence.

"This is no different than pointing a gun at somebody and pulling the trigger,"Janklow said.

As conditions for his bond, the court ordered Briteramos to remain inside the state, avoid any contact with the woman and to abstain from sex or intimate physical contact with any person.

County health authorities confirmed four cases of HIV infection after testing 186 people in the Huron Area. Anyone who had sexual contact with Briteramos was interviewed and asked to take an HIV test.

Disraeli Briteramos, 47, the youth's father, said his son is not a "monster," but agreed the teenager should have told his partners about his HIV infection.

"He's not a serial viral killer," the elder Briteramos told the Argus Leader.

There were 22 confirmed cases of HIV infection in South Dakota in 2001 and the state has one of the lowest rates of AIDS in the United States, health officials said.

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He should life w/o parole

[AdolescentMasturbator]

Scumbag. Knowingly giving people a disease like AIDS.

[fbd]

how is knowingly giving somebody aids different from spreading anthrax?

[Kid Afrika]

I would say giving someone the HIV is more heinous because of the intimacy involved. You don't have to see a person to spread anthrax to them. Conversely, if someone puts the HIV on your keyboard, it's likely that nothing will happen.

For shits & giggles, chew on this...

If you have the HIV, no chicks are gonna wanna sleep with you. But, if you don't tell them, they'll never know... unless they catch if from you. So, I'm not sayin' it's OK to spread the HIV to people by hiding it, but I understand.

[PollyannaFlower46]

If you have the HIV, no chicks are gonna wanna sleep with you. But, if you don't tell them, they'll never know... unless they catch if from you. So, I'm not sayin' it's OK to spread the HIV to people by hiding it, but I understand.

I agree with you on that one, but if it's not going to be told, the person with HIV should definitely wear a condom.

Having unprotected sex when you knowingly have HIV should be considered attempted murder and when the person gets infected and dies, it should be 2nd degree murder.

[Zootybang]

That scumbag should get the AIDS for doin tha.......wait, nevermind.
Seriously though, I saw this story In Newsday today, and It put me past the point of Infuriated. Whats worse Is,they had a picture of this degenerate, and he just looked so smug, so confident, and it made me hate him like my worst enemy, and I've never even met him. Definately the definition of "Animal".

[Kim]

Anyone who practices unprotected sex risks getting HIV/AIDS. If you have unprotected sex and you give someone HIV/AIDS you should be tried for murder in the first...

[Mr. Brownstone]

It's noone else's responsibility to protect yourself but your own. So if you want to go ahead and fuck without a ruuber that's great, but don't go crying if you catch something in the process. The difference between exposing yourself to STD's and anthrax or being shot at is that you agreed to it by virtue of not using a rubber. In my opinion, no crime has been commited unless the HIV+ party lied about his HIV status.