Dutch Court Sentenced Three Gays for Spreading HIV at Sex Parties

by Sreeraman on  October 16, 2008 at 3:13 PM AIDS/HIV News
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HIV-positive men told a Dutch court on Wednesday how a three-member gay gang tried to infect them with the AIDS virus at sex orgies.

"I feel fear, anger, sadness and anxiety," one of the alleged victims testified before the district court in Groningen on the third day of the week-long trial.

"I have lost a lot of weight," lamented the student, who is infected with HIV.

The three accused, all HIV-positive, are charged with drugging gay men at sex orgies, raping them, and injecting them with blood contaminated with HIV. They are aged 39, 49 and 50.

The three, including a nurse, are accused of intentionally spreading the deadly virus at sex parties they promoted on the Internet.

They face charges of aggravated assault, rape, and illegal possession of drugs and face up to 21 years in jail.

Another witness, identified only as Erwin, questioned the motives behind intentionally infecting another with the immunodeficiency virus. He said he has been taking anti-retroviral medication for six months.

"One must have incredible hatred," he said in a statement read out to the court by the presiding judge.

"This question occupies my days and nights. For the rest of my life I will carry this crime with me, and its consequences."

The trio were arrested in May last year after 14 alleged victims, 12 of whom are HIV-positive or sick with AIDS, lay charges. It is not known whether they had contracted the virus before the orgies.

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