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| German Singer On Trial For Spreading HIV |
| By salon.com |
| Published: 08/18/2010 |
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It sounds like the stuff of urban legend. An HIV-positive woman knowingly has unsafe sex, putting her partners at risk for a potentially fatal disease. Yet German pop star Nadja Benaissa not only did just that, today she is facing up to ten years in prison for her cavalier sexual behavior. In April, right before the No Angels singer was scheduled to perform at a concert, she was arrested and spent ten days in jail. She is now charged under German law for causing "grievous harm" to a partner who says he contracted HIV from her, and two other men she didn't notify of her condition. Sentiment over her case has, predictably, been as deeply divided as stories regarding sex and sickness can get. Writing in the Guardian, Edwin J Bernard called the trial "ineffectual, counterproductive and unjust," while commenters on the New York Times argued that "Any remotely decent person who is ill has a duty to take every imaginable precaution to refrain from contaminating others with ANY pathogen." Accountability is a great thing. If you're going around doing things that could make people sick, why shouldn't you be held responsible? If Benaissa were a corporate giant poisoning the environment, wouldn't we fully expect there to be consequences for her actions? And if unsafe sex came with criminal consequences, might AIDS no longer be running riot in places with a shaky attitude toward condoms, like Uganda? Read More. |
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