Man jailed for infecting 30 women with HIV
rome — An Italian court sentenced an HIV-positive man to 24 years in jail for intentionally infecting 30 women he had unprotected sex with over nearly 10 years.
Under the pseudonym “Hearty Style”, 33-year-old accountant Valentino Talluto seduced dozens of young women on social networks and internet dating sites, often dating several at a time.
Rome prosecutors had requested a life sentence for Talluto but after some 12 hours of deliberation the court decided he should receive a 24-year sentence after finding he did not cause an epidemic by spreading a pathogen, which under Italian law would have brought a life term. Some of his victims embraced and burst into tears when the verdict was announced, reporters who were present said. Out of 53 sexual conquests known to have taken place between 2006 — when he discovered he was HIV positive — and his arrest in 2015, 30 women were allegedly infected by him with the virus which damages the immune system and causes AIDS.
Throughout the trial, which opened in March in Rome’s Rebibbia prison, the women described how Talluto had wined and dined them, claiming to fall in love before persuading them to have unprotected sex. The women who had asked him to wear a protection said he told them he was allergic or had just been tested for HIV.
When the women discovered they were HIV positive — by chance, due to health problems or after other women he dated raised > Valentino Talluto, 33, an accountant would seduce dozens of young women on social networks and internet dating sites. > He would claim to have fallen in love with his victims before persuading them to have unprotected sex. the alarm — they said he said it had nothing to do with him.
Many of Talluto’s victims were students, some mothers. The youngest was 14 at the beginning of their relationship, the oldest around 40.
Each described the horrors of HIV, from the stigma which distanced > Out of 53 sexual conquests, 30 women were infected by him. > Prosecutors had requested a life sentence for Talluto. > Court gave him 24-year sentence after finding he did not cause an epidemic by spreading a pathogen. even family members, to the trials of treatment.
Some women stayed with him for months after discovering they were sick. In the end, it was above all his chronic cheating — he juggled up to six relationships at the same time — that drove them away. —
Talluto’s youngest victim was 14-year-old