Man gets 10 years for HIV infections

Toronto Globe and Mail ^ | 6/28/02

[NativeNewYorker]

Kitchener, Ont. -- A man who had unprotected sex with four women while knowing he was infected with HIV was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison. Edgard Monge, 37, was found responsible for infecting two of the women, plus a baby born to one of them.

Mr. Justice Steve Glithero said he had to impose a sentence that would denounce the crime and deter others. "He knowingly and repeatedly risked the very lives of four women and a child by his callous actions," the judge said. He called Mr. Monge's excuses "pathetic." Mr. Monge said he didn't have time to tell the women, and that several were too immature and lacking in education.

[zarf]

I don't get this decision. How can this be? Isn't sex a two way decision? Is it illegal now not to inform a sex partner of other venereal diseases?

[Tai_Chung]

A man who had unprotected sex with four women...

He's lucky the women didn't kill him for cheating.

[GovernmentShrinker]

The baby didn't get much of a chance to participate in the decision-making. Sounds to me like a light sentence for 4 counts of attempted murder, two of which were successful (albeit on a delayed basis), and the baby was yet another victim.

[Texas Mom]

"Sounds to me like a light sentence for 4 counts of attempted murder, two of which were successful (albeit on a delayed basis), and the baby was yet another victim.

Agreed.

[Texas Mom]

Is it illegal now not to inform a sex partner of other venereal diseases?

AIDS is a little more than your average VD... it's a death sentence and yes if it isn't illegal it should be. If someone knowingly infects a sex partner without telling that person they should be punished.

[willyone]

You think it is OK to do what this guy did? Common decency which you probably have no clue about would make you keep it in your pants. Why don't you go over to DU where your mindset is more normal.

[wita]

Do it without telling your partner, and its murder 1. Though this appears to be canada, the CDC has bowed to pc pressure from queer nation for years. You can bet if smallpox was to resurface, or anything communicable and deadly, they would be tracking people by name who were the carriers.

The same should apply to aids. This disease killed a great many hemophiliacs in the early eighties before the controls were placed on blood donations. Had controls on aids carriers been in place there would have been hardly any deaths except for those involved physically with someone carrying the virus.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Has anyone ever noticed how prolific these dirtbags--who our taxes support--often seem to be? Has Darwin been (temporarily) repealed in the West?

[Paul Atreides]

If this had been a homosexual giving it to another homosexual, without the first telling the second he was HIV-positive, would this had been handled the same way? Especially, by the media.

[zarf]

hey bonehead, I was asking a rhetorical question....I think this guy deserved what he got.

[zarf]

A baby is not considered a person until it is born, how come we can abort them yet we hold someone accountable for a disease it contracted while NOT a person.

[jejones]

I don't get this decision. How can this be? Isn't sex a two way decision? Is it illegal now not to inform a sex partner of other venereal diseases?

If I read the original post rightly, the man didn't tell the partner that he is infected. (I think you'll even find libertarians agreeing that that should be an illegal act, as it falls under the "fraud" portion of the "force or fraud" pair.) Until such time as we find a cure for AIDS, knowingly exposing someone to the HIV virus should, IMHO, be prosecuted as attempted murder.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Foreseeable consequences. But it shouldn't really make any difference to the amount of time this particular perp should be locked up. Leave out the baby -- 2 counts of murder, 2 counts of attempted murder, and the sentence ought to keep him locked up for the rest his life.