They ask for the full weight of the law for men accused of transmitting HIV to their lover
A judge in Lucas County, Ohio, issued a $ 1.5 million bail for the man accused of killing Kimberly Klempner, 51, who was infected with HIV.
According to the ABC affiliate in that state, Ronald Murdock, who was married to another woman, had an intimate relationship for five years with Klempner, without telling him that he was carrying the virus that causes AIDS and without protection.
It was the wife of Murdock who, on discovering the infidelity, told Klempner that he was HIV positive, but it was too late because she had already contracted the virus and died in February of this year.
Now the son of the deceased, Josh Klempner, is trying to focus attention on the seriousness of this problem: "If you are going to be in an (intimate) relationship, get a (medical) checkup. Point, "he says, bemoaning Murdock's concealment of his illness:" It would be different if he had let people know he had it before he got into that relationship, but he did not. So that tells me - and everyone else - that he does not care. "
The alleged victim's son also believes the defendant deserves the full weight of the law: "He should have warned her," Klempner says. "I should have told him. I do not want her to go outside. The way I see it is that they would have to bury him in prison. "
More and more people are getting criminal charges when they get AIDS. In New York, the Center for HIV Law & Policy has registered nearly 280 arrests and prosecutions related to HIV exposure between 2008 and 2016.
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