A South African was sentenced to 4 years in prison by the Mulhouse criminal court for knowingly transmitting AIDS to his partner
The voluntary transmission of a virus is no longer an unpunished act in France. It would even seem that the convictions by the French courts are increasing. A South African has in fact just been sentenced to four years in prison by the Criminal Court of Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) for having voluntarily transmitted the HIV virus to his partner, he learned on Tuesday.France Media Agency (AFP) to the latter’s lawyer.
The young woman from Alsace had met this man in Germany, and was already the mother of one of his children when she realized that she had been infected. Pregnant again, in 2007, she was contacted by another woman who revealed to her that she had been infected during a relationship with her partner, from whom she was expecting a child. When she was tested, she learned that she too had AIDS.
No explanation for his act
Shortly after her delivery, and while the child’s father had vanished for several months, the young Alsatian lodged a complaint. His ex-companion was sentenced in absentia to 4 years in prison in 2014. Finally arrested in December 2015 in Estonia, where he lived with his wife, the man was transferred to France in September 2016. He appeared in Mulhouse on Tuesday. , and was sentenced to four years in prison. “He did not explain anything” during the hearing which took place yesterday, “nor did he ever seek to contact her,” Camille Gaudineau told AFP.
In December 2016, another man (39 years old) was convicted in his absence by the Assize Court of Gard for having transmitted the AIDS virus to his partner at 12 years of criminal imprisonment for “administration of a harmful substance followed by mutilation or permanent infirmity by a person being, or having been a cohabiting partner, and with premeditation ”. He had knowingly concealed from his partner that he had AIDS.
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