Nushawn Williams

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Nushawn Williams (born 1976) admitted in 1997 to having unprotected sex with numerous women despite being told he was HIV positive. He infected 13 women in Chautauqua County, New York with the HIV virus. In 1999, he pleaded guilty to two counts of statutory rape (one of his partners was 13 years old) and one count of reckless endangerment in the first degree for having unprotected sex with a woman who did not know his HIV status. He received a 4-to-12 year sentence.

His case received widespread media attention and ignited a debate over whether knowingly spreading HIV could be viewed as a crime.

[edit] External links

• Dawn MacKeen, "Casanovas Who Kill", Salon.com, Nov. 10, 1997
• "Man Pleads Guilty in Rape Cases And Exposing Woman to H.I.V.", New York Times, Feb. 27, 1999 (subscription required)
• Jennifer Frey, "Jamestown and the Story of 'Nushawn's Girls'", Washington Post, June 1, 1999
• News clips about Nushawn Williams, actupny.org

[edit] References

• Thomas Shevory, Notorious H.I.V.: The Media Spectacle of Nushawn Williams. University of Minnesota Press, 2004