A 35-year-old Michigan man has been charged with multiple counts of criminal sexual conduct against a 12-year-old girl, including having sex with her knowing that he had HIV. Anthony Alvin Hodges is currently being held on a probation violation charge in Oakland County, where he lives, Detroit News reported. The sex crime charges were filed …
A former Maryland police officer was indicted on Tuesday, months after he allegedly raped a woman following a traffic stop. In September, then-Fairmount Heights officer Martique Vanderpool, 30, and a colleague reportedly pulled over a female driver in Capitol Heights. The Prince George’s County Police Department said in a statement that Vanderpool placed the driver …
An Iowa man was arrested on Tuesday, following allegations that he transmitted HIV to a woman and a 13-year-old girl. Lamont James, 33, is accused of sexually abusing the girl over the course of two years. The now-16-year-old victim told police in June that she had been in a sexual relationship with James since she …
A Florida man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday for failing to disclose his HIV-positive status to at least two women he had sex with. Law enforcement began investigating Rasheem Ikey Bodiford, 27, in June 2017, after a woman said she tested positive for HIV and identified him as her last sexual …
A Texas man who admitted to purposefully infecting his girlfriend with HIV was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Wednesday. The Fort Worth Star Telegram reported that Karim “Tyson” Zakikhani, 34, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury for infecting then-girlfriend Sarita Anderson with the virus. The pair had started dating in 2013; Zakikhani was diagnosed …
A Georgia teacher–who also worked part-time as sheriff’s deputy–is accused of having sex with a 16-year-old boy and knowingly exposing him to HIV. According to WJXT, Ware County educator Tracy Wayne Crosby, 42, was originally charged on November 29 with misdemeanor solicitation of sodomy. However, jail records revealed that the 42-year-old is also now facing a …
Purposely exposing a sexual partner to HIV without disclosing a positive status is no longer a felony in California. The Los Angeles Times reported that Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill Friday downgrading the crime to a misdemeanor. The bill also applies to people who give blood and fail to tell blood banks they’re HIV-positive. …
The trial started recently against an HIV-positive man accused of tampering with condoms prior to multiple sexual interactions. Prosecutors argued 26-year-old hairdresser Daryll Rowe of Edinburgh, Scotland, infected at least four men in an deliberate attempt to spread the potentially deadly virus. One victim reported finding a used condom in the sink after he had …
