From The Marshall Project:
Caymir Weaver kept his gaze forward and his jaw set as a county judge chastised him during an October court date.
“You disrespect everything that’s proper and moral and ethical,” Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge R. Scott Krichbaum told him.
Weaver was used to being judged for having HIV. He’d had it since he was born. But now he was facing time in prison for it.
Months earlier, the 22-year-old had reconnected with a high school friend. After chatting on social media, they hung out, and eventually, he gave her oral sex. Weaver thought his friend remembered he was living with HIV — he had been open about it his entire life — but after he reminded her, she got upset and called the police. Continue reading >>>
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