A woman has been accused of Prosecutor’s Office of Santa Cruz de Tenerife of having transmitted to a man – his partner at the time of the events – the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV) in December 2018, without previously informing him that he had the disease.
This party considers that the woman is the author of an alleged crime of injuries, and therefore requests that she be sentenced to 9 years in prison and pay 300,000 euros to her partner.
Of the 300,000 set as compensation, 150,000 correspond to the treatment that the infected person must undergo throughout their life and the remaining amount will serve to compensate for the moral suffering caused, plus the legal interest that is established according to the legislation.
Once the accused serves the possible sentence of deprivation of liberty, a restraining order would be imposed on the accused for ten and a half years, as well as a prohibition on communicating through any means with the injured party.
The accused knew that she had HIV
The relationship It started in June 2018 but since 2014 she already knew that she was diagnosed with this disease, so despite having perfect knowledge of it and the serious risk of contagion, she had sexual relations for a year without informing her boyfriend and without taking appropriate protective measures.
The consequence is that the man was infected by the woman, which he became aware of on December 16, 2019, from which point he requires medical treatment throughout his life to survive.
In addition, he is obliged to take the necessary care measures to not spread the disease to third parties, all of which circumstances have significantly affected his quality of life since then.
