OMG-Sex usually features the strange, the bizarre, and the slightly funny sex news; today’s sex news doesn’t quite fit into any of the categories above. A man in Ohio has been charged with a felonious assault for having what appears to be consensual sex with several women.
The reason for the charge?
The man had HIV, had sex with multiple partners, and did not tell any of the women that he had sex with. This is against the law in the great state of Ohio. Anyone diagnosed with HIV in Ohio is legally bound to tell the person that they are having sex with that they have been infected with HIV.
Like I said, this is not a funny story. Andre Davis, who is a former professional wrestler known as “The Gangsta of Love” is being prosecuted on no less than 15 separate counts of felonious assault for his silence to 12 different women about his HIV status.
Davis’ defense attorney doesn’t seem to have all that strong of a defense in the case; he is actually blaming the women for “not taking adequate precautions against STDs.” Davis was diagnosed with HIV in 2009, but his attorney is claiming that it will be impossible for the prosecutors to prove that the former wrestler and scum of the Earth actually has HIV. I don’t quite understand how the attorney really thinks that either of those arguments will get Davis off the hook for his reprehensible and criminal actions.
I’m pretty sure that the Gangsta of Love’s weak defense as described by his defense attorney won’t help Andre Davis in his trial. I think it’s also a tragedy that he had sex with so many women without disclosing his HIV diagnosis. The only positive thing about the tragic affair is that the more men who are prosecuted for failure to disclose the fact the they have HIV, the more men will realize that they can’t get away with lying to their sexual partners.
Jeopardizing lives for the sake of having sex without a condom is not just a mistake, it’s a potentially fatal mistake for the victims.
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