Oklahoma City Man Charged With Intentionally Spreading HIV After Being Diagnosed In 2019

In Oklahoma Metropolis, a person has been arrested and charged with intentionally spreading the HIV virus. He has allegedly contaminated at the least three ladies.

The alleged offender is 30-year-old Ernest Lacour, and in response to data obtained by authorities in OKC, Lacour was recognized with the virus in 2019.

One in all his victims, who selected to stay nameless, spoke with OKC’s Fox 25 and says that though she’s concealing her id, she desires to talk up in hopes of warning others.

“It’s a pandemic, however you possibly can nonetheless reside your life. I don’t have AIDS and I nonetheless have a life to reside,” the sufferer mentioned.

Based on the sufferer, she started a sexual relationship with Lacour in 2021.  She shared that she started to really feel sick, get lightheaded, and at occasions she would even move out.  That’s when she determined to name her physician.

“I’d simply faint and move out,” she defined. “I’d get so lightheaded that I’d have these episodes and throw up for weeks,” she added.

It was then that the sufferer discovered her life-changing analysis. Police received concerned when proof appeared to point out that Lacour was conscious of his standing on the time he and the sufferer have been intimate.

The sufferer took to social media to unfold consciousness about Lacour, which triggered different ladies to return ahead about their tales as effectively.

Based on one other certainly one of  Lacour’s alleged victims, she went to the physician with Lacour and realized he was HIV optimistic when he was given drugs that day with out having to have his blood examined.

Lacour has been charged with three felony counts of knowingly participating in conduct to switch HIV.

His sufferer says the analysis has taken a toll on her psychological state.

“Mentally, it’s laborious having to deal with this. I’m crying. There are packages they inform me about with drugs and coverings,” she mentioned.

She additionally claimed that there might be different ladies at risk and that folks ought to instantly get examined.

“I simply need to inform everybody that they should get examined and to watch out. You by no means know who somebody actually is,” she mentioned.