New Zealand – During a health check in 2004, a man discovered he was HIV-positive, his wife and children tested negative. She said she stayed with her husband for the sake of the children, but refused to have sex with him for fear of contracting the disease. He was unsatisfied with that arrangement, so, in May of 2008, he dipped a sewing needle into his blood and pricked his 33-year-old wife with it while she slept. Twice. According to her, she awoke one day to find a sting-like mark on her left thigh – two days later, she awoke to a stinging feeling in her leg. “I got up… and I flicked the blankets… I looked at (the husband) and he was wide awake.” She asked him if he pricked her, he said no, but the blood droplets on the blankets gave him away. Four months later she gets tested again – she’s HIV positive. When she confronted her husband, he confessed and said he was sorry. “I used needles on you because I wanted you to be the same as me so that you can live with me and you won’t leave me.” And maybe, just maybe, he thought he could get a little nookie if they were both infected? Brilliant plan, prick. The 35-year-old man admitted to willfully injecting another with a disease and is facing up to 14 years in prison at sentencing next year.
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Tags: AIDS, Crime, HIV, New Zealand, prick, sewing needle, willfully injecting another with a disease
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