The state of New York has won its case to keep convicted sex offender Nushawn Williams confined after his twelve year sentence is complete. Williams reportedly infected at least thirteen women with AIDS. He pled guilty to statutory rape and reckless endangerment 1998.
According to the Associated Press, Williams’ attorneys tried to convince the court he should not be subject to the civil confinement law since it was passed long after he was incarcerated for his rape sentence and had begun serving his reckless endangerment sentence. Reckless endangerment is not a crime eligible under the criminal confinement law. However, the judge agreed with the prosecution that the civil confinement law could apply because he was still in prison when the law was passed.
The prosecution claimed that Nushawn Williams fit the type of offender ment to be segregated from society under this law. In court papers, the AP says he was described as a “mentally disturbed, sex-obsessed drug user who was cited for 21 disciplinary offenses in prison.” It was also reported that the year before Williams was charged, authorities in rural Chautauqua County took the unusual step of making Williams’ HIV status public to try to stop further spread of the virus by Williams’ infected partners.
Williams says he did not remember being told he was infected and did not purposely spread HIV. During a March interview with a correctional facility doctor he said, “If I used protection, I wouldn’t have it, either.”
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