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On August 28, the Dexter, Mo., Police Department arrested an
HIV-infected man who may have “recklessly” infected more than 300 sexual
partners while “knowingly infected” with HIV. The individual did not inform his
sexual partners, many of whom he met through the Craigslist online classified site,
that he had been infected with HIV since 2003.
The arrest came after the suspect’s former sexual partner
received an HIV diagnosis and filed a complaint with the Dexter Police
Department. According to an affidavit filed by Detective Cory Mills, the suspect
had assured his former partner before they had sex that the suspect had no
STDs.
The two men met on Craigslist and lived together from
November 2012 to June 2013, when the complainant found out the suspect also was
having sexual intercourse with other partners.
Stoddard County Prosecuting Attorney Russell Oliver
recommended that anyone who had sex with the suspect or who had met an
anonymous sexual partner on Craigslist should cease sexual activity and have an
HIV test immediately.
Based on the suspect’s statement, police reported that 50–60
of the suspect’s sexual partners could be from Stoddard County.
