HIV-positive woman gets house arrest for unprotected sex
Last Updated: Saturday, December 10, 2005 | 11:53 AM ET
CBC News
A woman who had unprotected sex with a soldier without telling him that she is HIV positive has been sentenced to house arrest for a year.
Jennifer Murphy, 32, was sentenced in Barrie, Ont., on Friday after pleading guilty to aggravated sexual assault in November.
- FROM NOV. 28, 2005: Guilty plea in HIV-assault case
She will also be on probation for three years.
HIV can cause AIDS. There have been no reports of positive HIV tests connected to Murphy's activities.
Murphy had sex with a soldier from CFB Borden, about 100 kilometres north of Toronto.
- FROM MARCH 24, 2005: HIV-infected woman charged in military sex scare
The case sparked fear at the base early this year as a number of other soldiers came forward with similar accusations against Murphy.
Murphy, a native of St. John's, N.L., will serve her sentence in Newfoundland.
The sentence was a joint recommendation of the Crown and defence.
Several years ago, Murphy told CBC-TV in St. John's that she had tested positive for HIV in 1994.
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