- Ex-cop Ervans Saintclair was sentenced to eight years in prison Friday
- The 41-year-old failed to tell a sexual partner that he is HIV-positive
- He was convicted in April of uninformed HIV sexual intercourse, a felony under Florida law that carries a possible 30-year sentence
- The sexual partner did not test positive for the disease
A former Florida police officer received an eight-year prison sentence for failing to tell a sexual partner he is HIV-positive.
The Palm Beach Post reports that 41-year-old Ervans Saintclair apologized to the victim before he was sentenced Friday.
Saintclair said in the statement he had made ‘some bad choices and because of those choices, I am here’.
Ervans Saintclair, a former Greenacres police officer, sits in court Friday, June 15, 2018 (left) before being sentenced to eight years in prison for not telling women whom he had sex with that he’s HIV-positive. He is seen right in his mugshot
Judge Samantha Schosberg Feuer announced the ruling and said: ‘Police officers are supposed to uphold the law and he put this individual in jeopardy numerous times’
As Judge Samantha Schosberg Feuer announced the ruling, she said: ‘Police officers are supposed to uphold the law and he put this individual in jeopardy numerous times.’
The former Greenacres officer was convicted in April of uninformed HIV sexual intercourse, a felony under Florida law that carries a possible 30-year sentence.
The victim testified she and Saintclair had a sexual relationship between 2009 and 2013.
A doctor testified in court that Saintclair had been told in 2007 that he is HIV positive.
The victim is not HIV positive.
Saintclair’s ex-wife had reported him to authorities and provided them with names of other women he’d had sex with.
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