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Rapist may have HIV from Greater Manchester victim
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Posted on 09/03/2013 7:25:26 PM PDT by Orange1998

Richard Thomas was sentenced to five years and four months after admitting raping the woman at her home in Leigh, Greater Manchester.

He knew she was ill but did not know she had HIV and collapsed when police told him, Liverpool Crown Court heard.

Thomas, 27, of Sandringham Drive, Leigh, raped the woman after she had taken a sleeping tablet.

'His own fault'

He said he had been drinking heavily and taken drugs, and could not recall the attack but believed the woman, the court heard.

Thomas had let himself into the house uninvited in the middle of the night and the woman, who had taken a sleeping tablet, awoke to find him raping her.

Harry Pepper, prosecuting, said: "She froze and no words were exchanged. He pulled up his shorts and left."

Judge Mark Brown described the crime as "dreadful".

Thomas is due to find out whether he has contracted HIV later in the week.

His barrister, Virginia Hayton, said: "It is his own fault, if he had not committed this offence he would not have placed himself in this position."

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: hiv; oops
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Double Jeopardy for him.
1 posted on 09/03/2013 7:25:26 PM PDT by Orange1998
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To: Orange1998

“Revenge is a dish best served cold” —old Klingon Proverb


2 posted on 09/03/2013 7:28:31 PM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Orange1998

             

3 posted on 09/03/2013 7:28:52 PM PDT by tomkat
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Five measly years for rape?

Why don't they just throw a parade for him and call it a day?

4 posted on 09/03/2013 7:37:02 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Orange1998

Yes, the lighter boys had all of us terrified, and “AIDS is everybody’s problem,” It is VERY difficult to contract HIV, as a male, through vaginal sex. Reference transmission rates studies cited in “The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS.”


5 posted on 09/03/2013 7:48:21 PM PDT by golux
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To: Orange1998

He isn’t going to get AIDs from vaginal sex, it would be a super fluke.


6 posted on 09/03/2013 8:05:02 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Orange1998
It would be sweet if he had contracted it, but it's doubtful.

Heterosexually-transmitted AIDS was a myth promulgated by the homosexual mafia, much like the AGW myth promulgated by the Fabian socialists.

7 posted on 09/03/2013 8:13:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (When your policy is to rob Peter to pay Paul, you can count on enthusiastic support from Paul.)
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To: ansel12

Super Fluke? Not sure about that.


8 posted on 09/03/2013 8:16:46 PM PDT by Orange1998
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I want to believe but publications say otherwise.


9 posted on 09/03/2013 8:18:16 PM PDT by Orange1998
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To: Orange1998

What numbers do you have for female to male vaginal transmission in the United States?


10 posted on 09/03/2013 8:27:14 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Morgana
“Revenge is a dish best served cold” —old Klingon Proverb

I've heard that quote attributed to Otto von Bismarck.

11 posted on 09/03/2013 8:36:30 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: ansel12

I only know what I read. Not planning on being a test subject.

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/policies/law/risk.html

Insertive anal intercourse 6.5
Insertive penile-vaginal intercourse 5


12 posted on 09/03/2013 8:41:10 PM PDT by Orange1998
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I've heard that quote attributed to Otto von Bismarck.

Prince Otto was a Klingon?

13 posted on 09/03/2013 8:41:29 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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Super Fluke?

What, is SHE trying to claim a need here as well?

14 posted on 09/03/2013 8:48:15 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
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To: Utilizer

Don’t know.


15 posted on 09/03/2013 8:52:58 PM PDT by Orange1998
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Prince Otto was a Klingon?

The French may think he was.

16 posted on 09/03/2013 8:53:10 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Orange1998

5 chances in 10,000 if the woman is infected with AIDs, is a super fluke.

It would be a super fluke for this guy to get AIDs.


17 posted on 09/03/2013 8:59:37 PM PDT by ansel12
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The French may think he was.

Indeed, they might...

18 posted on 09/03/2013 8:59:59 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Orange1998

AIDS is easily transmitted by hetero sex. The anal variety will transmit it just as well between hetero partners as between homo partners. It is also probably more easily transmitted by violent vaginal rape than by the consensual variety.

Apologies if overly graphic.


19 posted on 09/04/2013 3:02:23 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Mark Steyn: "In the Middle East, the enemy of our enemy is also our enemy.")
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To: Sherman Logan
Only for the woman. The AIDS virus requires an open wound to gain entry into the body. Violent vaginal sex can cause open wounds. Unless a man already has a lesion on his penis (from Gonorrhea, for instance) the chances of infection are almost nil.

There is a very high rate of heterosexual AIDS in Africa because so many of the men carry other STDs like Gonorrhea.

20 posted on 09/04/2013 5:27:40 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (When your policy is to rob Peter to pay Paul, you can count on enthusiastic support from Paul.)
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