An Italian man was sentenced on Friday to 24 years in prison for
infecting more than 30 women with the HIV virus, after having
unprotected sex with them despite knowing that he was HIV positive, a
court ruled.Valentino Talluto, a 33-year-old accountant, seduced dozens of women via
social networks for a decade before his arrest in November 2015. Police
believe he had sex with at least 53 women during that time, passing on
the virus to 32 of them.
The male partners of three of the women subsequently contracted the
potentially fatal illness, as did an eight-month-old infant of a fourth
woman.
Talluto often found an excuse not to wear a condom, telling his partners
that he was allergic to them, or had just had an HIV test, the court in
Rome heard.
He expressed regret for what had happened, but said he did not realise the consequences of his actions.
Prosecutors had urged the court to give him life in jail, saying he had
provoked an HIV epidemic. The court rejected this, convicting him
instead of "grievous and incurable bodily harm".
Many of the women only discovered they had HIV after they heard of Talluto's arrest and had a test.
The HIV/AIDS pandemic has killed around 35 million people worldwide since it began in the 1980s.
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