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hiv man guilty of endangering lives
tuesday jan 31 19:34 aedt
an hiv-infected man has been found guilty of endangering the lives of three women through unprotected sex.


A south australian supreme court jury has found south african born andre chad parenzee, 34, guilty on all three counts of endangering life, after earlier hearing evidence the women had been led to believe he had cancer.


The court heard parenzee infected one of the women, a mother of two, but the other two tested negative to the virus.


One of the women who did not contract the illness testified she was furious when she eventually learned parenzee had hiv after the couple had broken up.

She said she asked whether a woman he had been seeing since their break-up was also infected.


"he said he couldn't give a s**t," the woman said.


"he didn't care if she was sick or not."

parenzee, of the adelaide suburb of oaklands park, told the trial he did not tell the women he had hiv because he feared rejection.


"i had lost friends and close friends by telling them I had hiv and I was afraid of losing her," he said of the woman he infected.


"it was just the fact that I didn't know how she would react to me telling her.


"i thought she would turn around and leave me like everyone else.


"i was in love with her at the time."

parenzee, who faces up to 15 years' jail for each charge, will be sentenced at a later date.


Parenzee also reportedly had unprotected sex with a fourth woman after contracting hiv.


It is understood prosecutors are investigating whether parenzee will face further charges over that relationship.



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