The woman had previously been found guilty of of attempted aggravated assault for perceived HIV exposure and sentenced to two and a half years in prison by the District Court in Wilhelmshaven in early This was increased to three and a half years by the Oldenburg District Court in late According to the prosecution, this latest case involved three different male clients between August and November This trial took place in private without any members of the media or public able to attend, apparently to protect the privacy of both the accused and her clients.
Also, for repeat offenders, the courts may order a preventive detention. In addition, preventive detention serves to protect the public from dangerous offenders. The woman has been in custody since March She will then be examined by an expert who will decide whether or not she can be released.
Source: NDR. The press release in German can be read here. An approximate English translation is below. The District Court of Oldenburg has sentenced a year-old HIV-positive woman from Wilhelmshaven to four years in prison and five years of preventive detention because the sex worker had unprotected sex with multiple clients. No HIV transmission is alleged.
Imprisonment and preventive detention create a dangerous false sense of security. Everyone needs to know that with unprotected sex there is a risk of HIV infection received, and must protect themselves. HIV cannot be locked away! To our knowledge no actual HIV transmission occurred in any of the cases.
In the current case, the court informed us on request that the woman had interrupted her HIV treatment during the relevant time and so HIV transmission was therefore possible. And before the sexual encounters she is said to have consumed alcohol to a considerable extent. Manuel Izdebski notes:.
