Grevious Bodily Harm by Deliberate and Reckless Infection with HIV by Unprotected Hetero-Sexual Intercourse

Mar 7, 2012 by Journal of Forensic Research

HIV man jailed. Helsinki: “A Finnish man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having unprotected sex with at least 12 women and not telling them he was infected with HIV. George Mensah, 50, who was born in Ghana, was also found guilty of rape and assault”.

The clandestine and deliberate infection of another person with any disease or without their fully informed consent, as in medical drugs trials, has rightly always been regarded as fundamentally and morally wrong, if not utterly ethically repugnant. Historically the gift of blankets from a hospital with smallpox sufferers to American Indians in the late 18th century is, probably, the best known and earliest one, as far as medical historians are concerned.