"Ronald Helm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (April 23, 1998 07:13 a.m. EDT http://www.nando.net) --
A medical technician was charged with injecting his son with
HIV-infected blood so the boy would die and he wouldn't have to pay
child support.
Brian Stewart, 31, of Columbia, Ill., was arrested Tuesday and jailed in
lieu of $500,000 bond. He was charged with first-degree assault, which
carries a life sentence if convicted.
Prosecutors say that when Stewart's son was hospitalized as an infant
with respiratory problems six years ago, he injected the boy with
tainted blood he had brought from his job at a St. Louis hospital.
The boy contracted HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Doctors called
police two years ago when they could not explain how the child
contracted the virus. The boy, now 7, has full-blown AIDS.
Stewart came under suspicion when he told the boy's mother and other
family members that she would never collect child support payments
because their son wouldn't live that long. Stewart had contested his
son's paternity, authorities said.
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