Philippe Padieu
Posted on 09/19/2009 1:49:45 PM PDT by Dallas59
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Padieu testified in his defense, saying he is not a sexual predator.
On Wednesday, the Collin County jury convicted Padieu on six counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for recklessly and intentionally infecting six women.
Padieu faces five to 99 years in prison on each count. The jury may decide his punishment Friday.
You’d give him the death penalty...but he already has it.
How about, no treatment except palliative in jail?
Now he can write a book while he is in prison - he must have the gift of gab ....
>On Wednesday, the Collin County jury convicted Padieu on six counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for recklessly and intentionally infecting six women.
A PENIS is a DEADLY WEAPON?!?
Oh come on!
This is one reason our legal system is held in such disdain.
How about only Obama care in Jail, pain pills
I heard the special from the other room he is a monster.
But hey maybe if we get Obamacare he can get free heroin from the gov health like in England.
Show some leniency — 80 years per count should do.
bodily fluids
A PENIS is a DEADLY WEAPON?!?
Oh come on!
This is one reason our legal system is held in such disdain.
The deadly weapon is the HIV, not the penis.
That’s what i mean...of course, in prison he’s gonna need a big red tattoo “I HAVE AIDS”.
Beat me by 18 seconds. GMTA!
He'll be there in prison with his own kind....
bannie got us both by a few seconds (albeit with less specificity)!
People like to scoff at this happening, but it does, and it happened years ago also.
In college (80’s) I knew this guy named Chris West. He was from a wealthy and well connected family in Mobile, AL.
He got AIDS, I suspect from an un-admitted homosexual pick up when he was in law school at Cumberland Law School. He publicly dated women.
He went on to give AIDS to one person for sure. One girl sued him for it, can’t remember if that was civil or criminal. I do remember at the time that over 100 people, men and women came forward to say that they had had unprotected sex with him.
He committed suicide a few days after the court ruled that his records from the Jefferson County Health Department (showing that yes, he’d had the AIDS test and knew he had it,) could be opened.
The girl he infected, the one that the original case had been about, was named Corrine. For some reason, I’ve never forgotten her. Chris had represented her during her divorce, and she had two small sons at the time. This was in the very early 90’s.
I guess she’s long dead now.
The case never made it to court.
The whole thing was tragic.
KILL HIM!
Unless there is something I am not aware of?
Well, they will have to either identify the disease in him or keep him out of the general population...otherwise, prisoners will sue and nowadays, probably win.
>bodily fluids
If you were concerned about bodily fluids YOU WOULDN’T HAVE SEX!!!
That is like people trying to check the level of fuel in their gas-tank with a lighter... DUMB, and with unsurprising results when the catastrophic-failure occurs.
It is the fault of EVERYONE involved; him for not telling, her [pl.] for having extra-marital sexual relations... it’s fairly obvious that the main culprit here is people failing to take into account the results of being promiscuous.
check it out
perhaps we’ll see more victims popping out from Michigan after this mational broadcast.
Lesson to the women: When you behave immorally bad things can happen to you.
There should only be one punishment for this , it has something to do with a french device and it would be live on TV.
You people have got to wake up. I'm not even bothering to dissect it again I've done it so many times. Pathetic!
He gave people a death sentence. A CDC quarantine is irrelevant. And if this can’t be punished, God help our country.
If Padieu were homosexual, prosecuting him would be labelled a “hate crime”.
These women were a little too desperate for a younger man’s affection and it got them their HIV infection.
> The deadly weapon is the AIDS virus — the penis is merely the delivery device. / The deadly weapon is the HIV, not the penis.
Point of contention: The HIV/AIDS virus does not kill you... it merely makes it extraordinarily easy for some other disease to do so.
Furthermore: Has the virus been weaponized? How then can it be called “the weapon”?
When I got my Anthrax vaccine it was because of the ease of (and some precedence of) its weaponization... has the HIV/AIDS been so engineered? (And if so, I’d like to see your proof/reasoning.) Calling the HIV/AIDS virus a weapon is akin to calling the flu-virus a weapon: it could be used as one, yes, but that doesn’t mean that it [or any particular/random case] IS one.
But it is relevant. If they prosecute this guy it IS creating law from the bench.
unless there was some legal restrictions the CDC gave him a license to kill by not quarantining or any kind of restrictions against HIV people.
A bullet doesn’t kill you ... getting shot merely makes it extraordinarily easy for blood loss, or organ failure to do so.
All the more reason not to break into people’s houses, right?
“If Padieu were homosexual, prosecuting him would be labelled a hate crime.”
Interesting thought. This case seems to attract strong opinions on both sides. I think the legal aspects of this case are tenuous, but I have a hard time feeling bad for Padieu. I also have a hard time feeling bad for the group of frumpy women that couldn’t resist this studly looking euro-trash.
I wonder how the case would have gone had it been a hot babe sleeping with a bunch of balding fat dudes ?
You can’t just make stuff up. The CDC does not make criminal law; that’s under the purview of the states. It has nothing to do with this. What does the statute say? I take it neither of us has read it but I assure you it doesn’t mention the CDC. That’s the only thing that governs this trial.
The more interesting question, as someone alluded to before is causation. What happens if someone dies in a car accident before the opportunistic infections get them, etc.?
Cut it off? Nah, just sterilize it, using standard technique...Wash it with cidex or bleach water, or boil it for 30 minutes...should do the job...
I didn’t see that. Copied it from another news site.
Oh yeah, make sure you get the bore clean...
I guess it was politically incorrect to infect women. Men give AIDS to men all the time, sometimes deliberately, and nothing is ever done about that, because it’s a Gay Right.
I don’t know what prosecutors can charge this guy with is my real question. As far as I know there is no law of any kind restricting HIV carriers. If there is no law he has to go free it is up to law makers to restrict HIV carriers.
Even that would be too good got that piece of filth.
HIV as the cause of AIDS is a legal presumption, but has a lot going against it as a viable biological theory. Google Peter Duesberg for more info.
So true!
It is sad that people don’t seem to care who they sleep with.
Stay celibate until marriage, then stay monogamous. Make sure your partner does likewise.
Everyone else takes their chances with the HIV date.
But you do make a good point. If we make a big stink about this again we would get tared and feathered again.
This is prominently a gay and people with very poor morals disease. in other words if the left wants to kill themselves whatever.
You’re certainly not advocating that the CDC take the place of states in deciding what’s criminal, correct? The CDC has
NO authority over what’s criminal in states, and I tend to like it that way.
He’s not convicted of having HIV. He’s convicted of assault (i.e., intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causing bodily injury to another) with a deadly weapon. At a minimum, we can agree it’s assualt, because he was at least reckless. Perhaps you’re arguing that HIV is not a deadly weapon? It’s certainly capable of causing death or serious bodily injury. I think it makes sense.
I don’t believe AIDS or HIV is usually listed as the cause of death. The virus will weaken the immune system so that other illnesses are more dangerous than usual. A friend of mine who passed away when we were kids had AIDS from tainted blood platelets. His cause of death is listed as pneumonia.
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