Woman jailed for giving lover HIV

[Mrs Behavin]

A woman who recklessly infected her lover with HIV has been sentenced to more than two-and-a-half years. Sarah Jane Porter, 43, of Seaton Close, Kennington, south-east London, was sentenced to 32 months after admitting inflicting GBH recklessly.

The court heard that, knowing she had the virus, she had unprotected sex with her 31-year-old lover of two years. At the Inner London Crown Court Porter was told she will serve half her sentence in prison and half on licence.

An inquiry started when detectives were alerted by a 36-year-old man who said Porter did not reveal she had HIV but had encouraged him to have unprotected sex with her.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5094708.stm

Perhaps I'm missing something but knowingly giving somebody HIV equates to murder in my eyes. Yet the woman was only charger with GBH, will serve only 16 months in jail and there are even people arguing that she shouldn't have been convicted at all. So was her sentence just, too light or too heavy? What are your thoughts?

 

[TheOriginalJames]

So basically she is going to jail because she 'knew' she had aids, and when she asked him to have sex with her, he happily obliged the request of someone he apparently didn't know to well?

wtf. You screwed up dude. People are getting sue happy in London now.

 

[Veronica]

she should of told him.. but it was his careless mistake as well.. so :dunno

 

[AtlanticBlue99]

If you know you have AIDS and a partner is interested in a sexual relationship, legally, you have to inform them of your condition.

Think about it from an administrative POV. This situation is very similar to wearing seatbelts. You may not want to wear a seat belt because it "only affects you and your life." But this isn't so. If you don't wear a seatbelt and die in a collision, your family is affected, your employer is affected, the funeral directors are affected, so in a large prospective, and in many cases combined, the economy is affected.

So, you can not wear a seatbelt and cost your employer 2 weeks pay, cost your family therapy, cost your family funeral arrangements, and in the greater society, cost the economy multi-millions of dollars depending on your level of education and earned income. The gov't makes a shit load of money on taxes, so when a wealthy person dies of something like not wearing a seatbelt or being infected by a malicious or neglegent partner, the gov't loses out, and this in turn affects everybody.

 

[!]

they should infect her with the bird flu

 

[hhayes]

Re: RE: Woman jailed for giving lover HIV

she should of told him.. but it was his careless mistake as well.. so :dunno

definately. i watched one of those tv shows where a ayguy knowingly was infecting other guys with HIV and one of the guys brothers that he gave HIV to murdered him. it was a trip. you have to be very careful these days and be sure to use protection no matter what.

 

[SilentEyz]

It was her BF of 2 years, I wonder how hard it really was for her to convince him to have sex with her.

Seriously though, WHY would you have unprotected sex, regardless of how long you have known them, and in this day and age. I dont understand it.

More proof, You just can not trust anyone.

 

[Ms_Kitty]

They're both guilty.......her for not being honest about her condition and him for being an idiot!