Australia Sydney - Man jailed for giving wife HIV
Man jailed for giving wife HIV
A MAN will spend at least three years behind bars for infecting his wife with HIV, a court has ruled.
A Sydney judge handed down the sentence after the 38-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to one charge of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm.
Penrith District Court previously heard the man infected his wife, who is the mother of his three children, with HIV some time between January 1994 and December 2003.
His wife only found out she had the disease when the couple's youngest child was diagnosed with HIV in 1998.
The child died three years later from an AIDS-related illness.
Judge Jennifer English on Monday sentenced the man to four years and six months full-time jail with a non-parole period of three years, meaning he will be eligible for release in April 2012 at the earliest.
