An Italian accountant has been jailed for 24 years for intentionally infecting dozens of women with HIV.<br /><br />A court in Rome heard that Italian accountant Valentino Talluto, 33, went on social networks to find victims, after his own diagnosis in 2006,<br /><br />Claiming he was allergic to condoms, or HIV free, he infected some 30 women by having unprotected sex.<br /><br />The male partners of three of them subsequently contracted the virus, as did the baby of a fourth woman.<br /><br />Italian man jailed for 24 years for knowingly infecting dozens of women with HIV https://t.co/whywa6zBKE pic.twitter.com/JVb25imsM7— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) 27 octobre 2017<br /><br />Prosecutors had sought a life term for Talluto, saying he had provoked an HIV epidemic. <br /><br />The court rejected this, convicting him instead of ‘greviouis and incurable bodily harm.”<br /><br />Talluto, whose HIV-positive, drug addict mother died when he was four, expressed regret for what had happened but said he did not realise the consequences of his actions.<br /><br />The HIV/AIDS pandemic has killed around 35 million people worldwide since it began in the 1980s. <br /><br />with Reuters<br />
