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CBC:

An advocacy group is criticizing an unusual decision by Edmonton police to release the name and photograph of a teenager accused of having unprotected sex without disclosing that she is HIV-positive.

"It makes you really sick to your stomach because you know that this is going to be following this young woman for the rest of her life," said Shelley Williams, the interim executive director of HIV Edmonton.

Well, what's the problem then? Surely this woman is going away for a long time, right? Right?

Johnson Aziga says he’s willing to take the blame — sort of — for killing two women and infecting at least five others through HIV transmission.

Aziga, 55, made the remarks during a rambling 45-minute statement in Ontario Superior Court on Tuesday, minutes after Mr. Justice Thomas Lofchik declared him a dangerous offender.

He is believed to be the first person in Canada convicted of murder through HIV transmission. The dangerous offender designation means he could be jailed indefinitely.

[. . .] Aziga, a divorced father of three and former research analyst with the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General, was found guilty in April 2009 of two counts of first-degree murder, 10 counts of aggravated sexual assault and one count of attempted aggravated sexual assault. His convictions concern times he didn’t tell sexual partners he knew he carried the virus that causes AIDS before having intercourse. Five of the women became infected, with two dying of AIDS-related cancers.

But don'tcha worry, girl. The Edmonton Journal's head sob sister, Paula Simons, has got yo' back.

So should we all breathe a sigh of relief? After all, an accused serial sexual assailant is now in custody.

But this case isn’t quite so simple.

The accused in this case is a slim 17-year-old girl, a minor, a child of the streets, who, according to police, lives without a fixed address in Old Strathcona.

She isn’t accused of forcing anyone to have sex against his will.

Instead, three unnamed men, whose identities are protected by the rape shield law, have complained to police that this girl had consensual sex with them without first disclosing the fact that she was allegedly HIV positive.

Now this isn't the usual case of "woman = good/man = bad," although a casual reader of the Journal might certainly jump to that conclusion.

Nope. Simons is a Professional Journalist©​, and thus incapable of such crude stereotyping. So it must be something else that she has discovered about this man . . . something . . . some nuance that is beyond simple folks like us . ..