The much expected trial has commenced against three Dutch men charged with infecting at least 14 others with HIV virus.
The prosecution says the three promoted gay sex parties on the internet, then drugged and raped their guests and injected them with HIV-infected blood.
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What drove the three to commit such a ghastly crime remains unclear. Whether they were motivated by sheer perversion or it was simply a case of uncontrollable gay passion remains to be seen.
The three defendants, all HIV-positive, deny the charges, though. They face up to 21 years in prison if convicted.
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The court, in the northern city of Groningen, heard that the three men allegedly drugged their party guests with a combination of ecstasy and a date rape drug before sexually assaulting them and injecting them with their own HIV-positive blood.
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"They are hoping the trial will provide an answer to the question of why this happened to them," said the lawyer, Fred Kappelhof.
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