Texas Man infected teen with HIV

A sentence of up to 95 years could be handed down Wednesday for a man with AIDS who pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl.

The girl and her mother gave emotional testimony Tuesday at the sentencing hearing for Matthew Louis Reese. Names of the victim and her family are being withheld because she is a minor and a sexual assault victim.

The girl told Reese that she was a virgin and never had a boyfriend. Reese told the girl she needed to have sex if she wanted to be liked by men. The teenage girl eventually had unprotected sex with Reese. However, Reese never told her that he was HIV positive.

Reese was later arrested on drug charges and the teenage girl became sick. She went into a coma for two weeks and had to spend 40 days in the hospital due to kidney failure. She later discovered that she was HIV positive. Reese was diagnosed with HIV in 2006.

Once the girl’s parents found out that Reese was 31, they called authorities. He was charged and recently pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child with a deadly weapon and sexual assault of a child. If convicted on all charges, he will serve 95 years in prison.

Agencies/Canadajournal