The Pontoise Criminal Court requested 7 years in prison on Thursday March 14, against a 30-year-old man accused of having deliberately transmitted AIDS to several women.
The prosecutor of the criminal court of Pontoise, in the Val d’Oise, demanded 7 years in prison, a ban on working with minors and a 5-year socio-judicial follow-up against a 30-year-old man who voluntarily transmitted AIDS to several women, some of whom were very young at the time facts.
“I did not admit it. For me it was impossible”
According to The Parisianat least 16 victims have been identified between January 2016 and January 2018. One of them was only 13 when she met him in a bakery. Another, aged 15 at the material time, was in third grade when she became pregnant with him and contracted the disease. “He attacked me. I learned that I was pregnant. I was in third. I was already confused enough. Then I learn that I have a disease. Today my life is ruined. Every day, every night, I have to take medicine. It’s like a prison,” she said, quoted by the daily. Young girls he met mainly through dating sites like Tinder, Meetic or Vivastreet.
How to explain such behavior? The 30-year-old, tried for administration of a harmful substance followed by permanent disability, conceded to the court that he suspected he was HIV-positive in 2016, having had confirmation in the summer of 2017, but continued to live in denial. . “I did not admit it. For me it was impossible,” he admitted to three of his victims sitting on the bench of the civil parties. He admits never wanting to “transmit this virus” again, not having wanted to “hurt them”, also evokes his “selfish pleasure” and affirms that all were consenting to have sex without a condom. “But you were hiding that you were HIV-positive!” retorted the lawyer for the civil parties.
“He was the man of my life”
The young women tell how they let themselves be fooled. “He was the man of my life, my soul mate, I was imbued with him. He is the first person who told me I love you”, explains Sabrina at the bar, quoted by the Gazette. And Céline added: “I blame myself for having been weak at that time, for having trusted him. He said he had a healthy body, in a healthy head. I even saw him pray. He knew and he continues”. The latter also recounts the phone call she made to him to tell him that she was sick. “He cried, I wondered if he knew he was infected. Then he never called again”. Four days later, he had unprotected sex with Floriane, another complainant.
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