Man With HIV Jailed for Unsafe Sex Acts
From Times Wire Reports
An HIV-positive man was sentenced to five years in prison for failing to tell his sex partners about his condition. Phillip Carter of Columbus, Miss., was convicted by a jury of breaking a Mississippi Health Department quarantine order that also required him to use both a condom and spermicide when having sex. He was sentenced to the maximum term. Carter, 45, was accused of having sex in 1993 with a man who was unaware Carter had tested positive for HIV in 1991. Carter denied having sex with the man.
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