FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — An HIV-positive Fort Bragg soldier with a wife and kids has been accused of knowingly spreading the virus to a teenage boy.
This is disturbing family, on sooo many levels.
Private First Class Johnny Lamar Dalton, 25, was charged last week with assault with a deadly weapon (his "Shemar Moore") , misdemeanor assault and committing a crime against nature. He is being held under a $50,000 bond and faces the same charges from the military.
Dalton was arrested after the Fort Bragg military police and the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office conducted a five-month-long investigation, where they found that the 25-year-old was engaged in a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old boy he found in a gay online chatroom and then met in person, the boy's mother told WRAL.com.
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Last November, Dalton signed a written order agreeing to not have unprotected sex and to notify a partner before he did, a spokesperson for the 82nd Airborn Division told WRAL.com.
His encounters with the boy continued despite the order and despite his having a wife and children. In February, doctors conducting routine blood tests reportedly found that the otherwise healthy teen was HIV positive.
The boy, now 18, and his mother went to Fort Bragg military police and then to the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office.
"My son received it [HIV] unwillingly," the teen's mother told WRAL.com. "If you willingly and knowingly ... and you purposefully do something, you should suffer the consequences."
Both the boy's mother and military investigators are worried that Dalton might have infected other people who have not come forward. The mother has said she thinks that the Army should have better control over soldiers known to be infected with HIV or AIDS.
Dalton is a member of the 22nd Aviation Support Battalion and is not allowed to deploy because of the virus.
Military and civilian prosecutors will meet to decide who will take the case to court. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for August 2.
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