Florida Man With HIV Sentenced to 2 Years for Not Informing His Many Sexual Partners

Florida Man With HIV Sentenced to 2 Years for Not Informing His Many Sexual Partners
Florida Man With HIV Sentenced to 2 Years for Not Informing His Many Sexual Partners (Image: Volusia Sheriff's Office)

A Florida man was sentenced to two years in prison for failing to inform sex partners that he was HIV-positive.

Gentry Burns, 27, pleaded not guilty to one count of uninformed HIV-infected consensual sex on Thursday. Two other counts were removed, according to WESH.

Burns was arrested for the first time in 2019 after an ex-girlfriend came forth with knowledge that Burns was having sex with other women while infected without informing them.

Burns was diagnosed with HIV in January 2014, according to investigators, and went on to have intercourse with three women without alerting them of his situation. According to authorities, one woman was diagnosed with The disease in 2017 after dating Burns in 2016.

After he is released from prison, Burns will be on probation for a year.

‘It’s believed that Gentry Burns traveled extensively along the East Coast of the United States and may have had contact with additional victims in other states,’ sheriff officials said at the time Burns was charged, who was already in jail on unrelated charges. 

In Florida, it is illegal for a person to have an STD and not reveal that information to their partner with whom they are having sexual relations. The law requires HIV transparency, as well as disclosing of other diseases such as gonorrhea, genital herpes simplex, chlamydia, and syphilis.

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