James Allen Propes, a 24-year-old American residing in Georgia, USA, will spend the next ten years of his life behind bars. His fault? Deliberately inoculating the aids virusto two of his sexual partners. These two women he had met on the Craiglist dating site had not been required to inform the young man of his seropositivity. This withholding of information explains the verdict rendered by the State of Georgia. James Allen Probes is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment precisely for “endangering the lives of others by an person infected with AIDS “.
The two infected women filed a complaint after discovering the American’s HIV status in 2014, when he was already heard by the courts of Oregon and Indiana for similar facts, reports The world.
No legal text but a judicial precedent in France
The accused knew several sexual partners while surfing on this dating site. It could be that he contaminated other of his conquests, without them knowing it.
In France, although no legal text expressly punishes the voluntary transmission of HIV, a certain legal vagueness persists. A case of the same ilk as that of the American occurred in 2004. Christophe Morat, a 31-year-old HIV-positive man was tried and sentenced to six years in detention by the Court of Colmar for having had several sexual relations without having revealed his state of health.
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