Frisco (TX) man gets 45 years for hiding HIV infection from sex partners

[rainbow4321]

Background: He was a martial arts instructor and the majority of the women he infected were mothers of his young students. The initial story when it first came out had these details but then the whole incident was kind of swept under the rug..Collin County (just north of Dallas) has an image thing going on and this, well, just didn't fit the image that the area/families/officials like to have splashed across the media.


http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/053009dnmetpadieuhiv.2add1223.html?ocp=1#slcgm_comments_anchor

A Frisco man will serve 45 years in prison for failing to disclose that he was infected with HIV before having sex with at least six women.

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Earlier this week, Padieu was found guilty of six counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after a jury determined he had unprotected sex with a half-dozen women without telling them he had tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
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On Thursday, against the advice of his attorney, Padieu took the stand, declaring himself to be the victim of angry women and overzealous prosecutors.

His surprise testimony came after a parade of sometimes tearful women told jurors how the HIV diagnosis had almost ruined their lives and how they feared for their future if he were to receive a light sentence and eventually be released.


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On edit: added TX in the subject heading

[Bluebear]

1. Damn San Francisco gays!!!!1

Oh....

[marmar]

3. I know, I saw Frisco and assumed San Francisco.....

.... Where the f**k is Frisco, TX?

[rainbow4321]

5. North of Dallas

It's a suburb in Collin County. Hour away from the OK-TX border, if that helps at all.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Only in Texas... "Frisco"...

WTF Texas?

"SF" is three characters shorter and doesn't sound nearly as fucked up to the sensitive Californian ear.

My 83 y.o. dad says "Frisco", and nobody else I've ever met.

:wtf:

BREAKING!!! My producer tells me that there is actually TOWN, in Texas, named "Frisco"!

HTTP://www.friscotexas.gov/departments/police/Pages/default.aspx

Never mind.

[foxfeet]

4. As indefensible as his behavior is, people must take responsibility to protect themselves.

There are plenty of folks whose infection status is unknown to themselves and to everybody else.

[rainbow4321]

7. Biggest problem is, IMHO, locals here think HIV is a "urban" problem

Can't happen here..not in Collin County...one of the whitest, wealthiest, repub county/cities in the state.

And guess what this state of denial has gotten us:

http://www.thebody.com/content/news/art24024.html


The number of people testing HIV positive rose in most parts of the Dallas-Fort Worth area in 2005, but cases in suburban Denton and Collin counties skyrocketed. According to preliminary data reported by the regional office of the Texas Department of State Health Services in Arlington, new HIV cases in Collin County increased 60 percent last year with 77 individuals testing positive, compared to 48 in 2004. Denton County had a 58 percent increase, or a rise from 43 cases in 2004 to 68 in 2005.

"It doesn't surprise me that HIV is up," said Ron Aldridge, executive director of AIDS Services of North Texas, which serves clients in Plano, Denton, Rockwall and Greenville. Of the 500 people ASNT assists, said Aldridge, about 200 live in Collin County. "Every year, our caseload goes up 20 percent and we're dealing with flat federal funding."

Aldridge said much of the federal AIDS money available is being directed to larger urban areas where IV drug users and minority populations are disproportionately affected. This has left rural and suburban areas more exposed, he explained.

Prompted by the spike in cases in Collin County, the Greater Dallas Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse in mid-January began offering free rapid HIV testing on Wednesday evenings at the county's Adult Clinic in Plano. And in response to concern that too many county residents were going into Dallas for testing, the Collin County public health department recently expanded its testing services from one day a week to Monday through Friday

[foxfeet]

8. That mindset isn't unique to Texas. It exists all over rural America.

[rainbow4321]

15. Oh, I know--didn't mean to come across as it being a TX only issue

I'm sure it is a mindset found in suburban settings nationwide...

As someone who works in an HIV/AIDS healthcare setting I've seen too many of these cases.

An elderly, divorced woman re-marries, tells her new husand that her FIRST husband died of a heart attack. What she left out: he also had AIDS and had infected her...her second husband didn't find out til he, too, became infected.

Another time we had a man come to our clinic door asking what kind of clinic it was..turns out, the woman he had brought "for a doctor's appointment" had left him in the car, telling him that she would be right back out. She didn't come right back out so he came looking for her. He wandered into our waiting room where he no doubt overheard people talking about the virus, or maybe he even saw a sign some where. That is how he found out that he may very well have been exposed.

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As a single/divorced woman these scenarios scare the HELL out of me..people ask why I have not hooked up with anyone since my divorce in the '90s. I'd be making the guy go to the doc's office, with me tagging along to watch the blood draw, to get a **full** STD panel done and I'd make him bring me BACK to the doctor to get the results from the doc myself, not just let the guy bring me a copy of the results or "tell" me the results.
Even then, I still would be insisting on condom use in case he dipped his wick elsewhere AFTER the testing.

[imdjh]

10. Yep , and he still belongs in jail. n/t

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. As horrid as this story is,

I still can never get over women who have unprotected sex with men outside of a committed, mutually HIV-tested relationship.

Playing Russian roulette for the sake of getting laid - not such a big aphrodisiac, at least for me.......................

[imdjh]

11. Truly, and it's not like it's the only terminal illness out there either.

HIV gets all the press, but do you know that with sex ed in junior high school and again in college (circa 1978) NOT ONCE did anyone mention Hepatitis. If they did, I don't remember it. I'm not sure that they ever mentioned HPV either. It was all about syphilis, gonorrhea , maybe chlamydia, crabs, and mostly about pregnancy.

Honestly, as a gay male sex ed was pretty much like learning Urdu. Not much chance that I was going to get to use the education.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

13. STD is a term that's very narrowly construed,

even today. I wonder if hepatitis or HPV are taught today.

It's a scary damn world out there. I'm so lucky, because when I was promiscuous, The Pill had just appeared and that meant the worst you were risking was a case of crabs - BFD - or something that could be successfully treated with antibiotics.

Today, I can't believe how lucky I was. We all were .....................

[d_b]

9. damn i gotztabe a martial arts instructor

[madeline_con]

12. Maybe Mommy shouldn't be fucking around with the martial arts instructor.

I'm just saying. And unprotected to boot. :puke:

[MiniMe]

14. Hey, that dude just had his penis declared a deadly weapon

Seems like that would be some kind of badge of honor in Texas.


Sorry Texans, I meant in George W Bush's Texas.