Man Gets 5 Years For Giving Wife AIDS

By: Associated Press | NBC4i.com
Published: March 09, 2010

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CLEVELAND - An Ohio man has been sentenced in Cleveland to five years in prison for infecting his wife with the AIDS virus.

Authorities say the unsuspecting woman had a 14-year relationship with Fernando Castro. Her treatment was delayed because he never told her about his AIDS condition.

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Timothy McGinty sentenced the 51-year-old Castro on Monday on his guilty plea to felonious assault.

Health officials said in court that had they known he was sexually active, they would have helped him tell his wife. But he claimed on hospital forms that he was single.

Castro apologized to his wife in court and asked for her forgiveness. She wants a divorce.

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