A Port Orange man was sentenced to two years in prison for not informing his sexual partners that he was HIV positive.
Gentry Burns pleaded no contest to one count of uninformed HIV-infected sexual intercourse Thursday morning.
Under Florida law, it’s illegal for anyone who knows they have any of several sexually transmitted diseases to have sex with another person without informing them of their status.
Officials initially charged Burns with three felonies, but prosecutors dropped the other two counts.
An ex-girlfriend initially reported Burns to authorities in October 2019 for having sex with women without telling them about his HIV status.
The report came in the same year Orlando ranked No. 2 for most new HIV cases among major cities in the United States.
Source: Orlando Sentinel
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