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So much for practicing safe sex!

My mistake, so he does have HIV…

I’m sure I read in the CT when the story first ran that it wasn’t HIV and they are unsure if he was servicing male clients. They also had a photo of him, I can’t believe people actually paid him money.

Re: initial comment on this article:
From http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/30/2150033.htm
Headline:
Charged sex worker has HIV: ACT Health

Article body:
ACT Health has confirmed Canberra sex worker Hector Scott has HIV…

A hotline – 1800 678 805 – has been set up for anyone who may have had contact with the man who advertised under the names Adam and Josh.

Apparently up to 250 people may have been affected. 😐

If you can’t get a 41 year old man for free, you’re really not trying…

I thought that was the idea of paying for sex though – you can’t get what you’re after for free : )

LOL he’s 41 and people pay him for sex – his clients must be desperate!!!

… or is he still being held?

So, has he been “discharged” by the Court?

A slap on the wrist? That’s a bit limp.

Perhaps a slap on the wrist with a carton of viagra.

Stiff penalty – he had it coming to him, and he should take it like a man!

He should get a stiff penalty.

Publish whatever STD this guy has got, and then comment.

Not that it will matter, he’ll get a slap on the wrist. Afterall, in this town you can steal a car, kill someone, and walk away.

A slap on the wrist?

That’s a bit limp.

I am wondering how many faces went pale across the breakfast table on Saturday morning…

Simbo – I’m not trying to start a lynch posse, I’m just suggesting that the laws & penalties need to be reviewed – or at least discussed.

BTW who ever suggested anyone on RiotACT had any “journalistic responsibility”? 🙂

Anyone deliberately spreading STIs is a lowlife – but this has nothing to do with being a sex worker.

Sex workers statistically have lower rates of infection than the general population – I mean, think about it, their bits are their livelihoods.

People need to take responsibility for their own s-xual health. Of course none of us are perfect and we all take stupid risks from time to time, but if a person has unprotected s-x with a s-x worker then the chance of contracting an STD is pretty obvious.

Pandy – I disagree that this is g@y bashing, a s-x worker allegedly knowingly transmitting an STD would be make news irrespective of his/her gender/s-xuality. Does the news article actually say it was a homos-xual worker?

And with regards to the offence a person convicted of such conduct would be liable for, in NSW there is a “causing a previous bodily disease” offence tailored to those kinds of circumstances, there might even be a similar provision in an ACT health Act, or it might be that it would fall within the ordinary “GBH” offence, I read something about it once but I couldn’t be bothered doing the research to provide a proper answer on that. Blah blah blah, sorry brain is like swiss cheese today.

That court order is only the ACT? Maybe someone from Qbn can fill us on the details before this guy gets the ACT tar and feathers applied.

GnT,
Even if only the major STDs like AIDS and Hep can lead to fatality or chronic illness, many of them can have long tern effects on health. Some can cause lasting effects to ones reproductive system, even leading to miscarriage which one could consider to be ending the life of an unborn child.

But manslughter is an odd thing to charge this person with as it would normally apply to actually ending someones life, not just infecting them with an illness. If its AIDS or one of the big ones, then I think depending on the victims condition and prognoses, perhaps manslaughter is appropriate. If it is a mor minor one that could cause long term health effects, the Actual grevous bodily harm would be more in order. I do think the law should be changed to actually specify such a thing as a crime and provide solutions for the courts that better suit the range of results of someone deliberately or negligently infecting someone with an STD.

I read over the weekend that the actual disease couldn’t be reported because of a court imposed gag, so it seems that there’s some judicial reason for keeping people in the dark.

This is a case of gay bashing.

Would not be reported if it was a woman.

I don’t think the penalty should be the same as manslaughter, since STDs rarely end someone’s life.

The announcement did come with his trading names (he’s advertised under the names of “Adam” and “Josh”), and there’s a hotline (1800 678 805) for anybody who’s dealt with him and is concerned about what the possibilities may be.

Perhaps, Kramer, informing the affected public about a dramatic issue might be considered a more important journalistic responsibility than trying to start a lynching posse?

So what’s this guy got? This ‘serious sexually transmitted disease’ could be AIDS. Or Chlamydia. What is it??? I can’t find the information anywhere