Man charged with raping his mother...

He has AIDS.

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An HIV-positive Winnipeg man is accused of exposing his mother to the potentially life-threatening disease by raping her while she was passed out.

The 28-year-old accused was ordered to stand trial this week on charges of aggravated sexual assault and incest following a preliminary hearing.

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The 50-year-old woman tested negative for HIV following the 2009 attack. Police have not released any details about the case, which was uncovered by the Winnipeg Free Press this week through court documents.

That's pretty much all that was said about that case; the rest of the article goes on to detail other cases where AIDS has played a role.

If ever anyone deserved to be castrated with a rusty spoon, this would be the guy.

I can't decide what's more horrific-that he was her son, that he raped her while she was passed out, or that he's HIV positive. Given that it can take years for symptoms of AIDS to manifest, this poor woman's going to be sitting on a ticking time bomb for Lord knows how
long.

Rabid Badger wrote:

I can't decide what's more horrific-that he was her son, that he raped her while she was passed out, or that he's HIV positive. Given that it can take years for symptoms of AIDS to manifest, this poor woman's going to be sitting on a ticking time bomb for Lord knows how
long.

It was in 2009 and the article said she had afterwards tested negative for HIV, so I don't think she has it. I suppose that's the only ray of light in this entire putrescence.

This news is a little old, don't you think?

Um... how does one count this as aggravated sexual assault though? Was she aggravatingly unconscious?

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:

This news is a little old, don't you think?

Um... how does one count this as aggravated sexual assault though? Was she aggravatingly unconscious?

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ag·gra·vat·ed   
–adjective
Law . characterized by some feature defined by law that enhances the crime, as the intention of the criminal or the special vulnerability of the victim: aggravated assault; aggravated rape.

These features can include: the victim's age (too old or too young to resist), the victim's physical inability to resist (being disabled or unconscious), the victim being outnumbered by a gang of assailants, or the criminal using a weapon to compel fear and compliance from the victim. See also:

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—Synonyms
1. heighten, increase. Aggravate, intensify both mean to increase in degree. To aggravate is to make more serious or more grave: to aggravate a danger, an offense, a wound. To intensify is perceptibly to increase intensity, force, energy, vividness, etc.: to intensify heat, color, rage. 2. anger, vex, rile.

Aggravated crimes are worse.