2 Day-Care Centers Settle in HIV Case

Two of three day-care centers in Beloit that refused to admit a child with HIV have settled with the government after agreeing the boy was protected by federal disability law. A third center still faces trial. The settlements mark the first time the 1990 law has been successfully used to cover a child with the AIDS virus, said U.S. Atty. Peggy Lautenschlager in Madison. Federal officials charged three centers in Beloit, 74 miles southwest of Milwaukee, with illegally refusing to admit a boy, now 5, in 1996. His aunt revealed that he had HIV when she tried to enroll him. The two centers agreed to sponsor seminars on the topic and to enroll HIV children unless they are high-risk cases. It is not known where the child is now being cared for.