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   HIV-positive man sentenced to 11 years for lying to sex partners   
      
      
   BY JENNIFER SALTMAN, THE PROVINCEJUNE 13, 2014true   
      
      
      
      
   A T cell (in blue) infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),   
   in yellow, is shown in an electron microscope image. A man who knew he   
   had the virus as early as 2005 infected two of three sex partners and   
   failed to tell them he was HIV-positive will spend 11 years in jail.   
   Photograph by: Files, AP   
   A B.C. Supreme Court judge denounced the conduct of a man who had sex   
   with three women without telling them he was HIV positive, before   
   sentencing him to 11 years in prison.   
      
   “His selfish and callous disregard for the complainants is inhumane,”   
   Justice Janice Dillon said Friday as she read her reasons for sentence   
   in a New Westminster courtroom.   
      
   Bongaini Nyoni, 42, was found guilty by a jury earlier this year of   
   three counts of aggravated sexual assault, which took place between   
   August 2007 and September 2009.   
      
   The victims were three women, who cannot be identified due to a   
   publication ban, with whom Nyoni had relationships.   
      
   Nyoni had unprotected sex with the women on multiple occasions and never   
   told them he was HIV positive, a fact of which he was aware since as   
   early as 2005. With two of the women, he told them outright that he did   
   not have HIV.   
      
   Two of the women contracted HIV from Nyoni.   
      
   “He took advantage of the love and care each of the complainants   
   bestowed upon him,” Dillon said.   
      
   Nyoni claimed he had told the women about his status and said he used   
   condoms on all but one occasion.   
      
   All of the women testified at trial that they would not have had sex   
   with Nyoni if they had known he was HIV positive.   
      
   Dillon said Nyoni knowingly lied or deliberately misled his victims   
   about his HIV status.   
      
   “He was a calm and smooth-talking, deceitful manipulator,” Dillon said.   
      
   Even after Nyoni was contacted by health officials — the two women who   
   had contracted HIV had named him as a sexual partner — and asked to   
   reveal who his partners were, Nyoni avoided their calls and deceived them.   
      
   “His conduct shows a lack of insight and compassion into how his actions   
   affected others,” Dillon said.   
      
   In written victim-impact statements, the two women who contracted HIV   
   described suffering from depression and a variety of health problems.   
   Neither is able to work.   
      
   Crown had asked for a sentence of 13 to 14 years, while the defence had   
   suggested seven years.   
      
   “Mr. Nyoni engaged in the riskiest behaviour with the highest moral   
   culpability that warrants the highest sentence,” Dillon said.   
      
   Nyoni was given eight months of credit for time served, leaving 10   
   years, four months in his sentence. Nyoni, who was allowed into Canada   
   on humanitarian grounds from Zimbabwe via South Africa in 2007, will be   
   subject to deportation once he has completed his sentence.   
      
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