Ottawa Man Charged With Multiple Counts Of Sexual Assault For Failing To Disclose HIV Status, 16 Year Openly Gay Jack Frew Killed And Police Arrest 17 Year Old, Milwaukee Project Q, Teacher Charged With Multiple Counts Of Sexual Abuse Takes Own Life

29 year old Steven Boone, of Ottawa, Ontario, has been charged by the city’s Police Service with nine counts of aggravated sexual assault, the result of incidents that according to authorities occurred in late January and early February, 2010, Boone, who is HIV positive, arrested after an 18 year old male told police in late April he contracted HIV after the two shared a number of sexual encounters. According to the victim, he and Boone met for unprotected sex at least nine times, and each time asked Boone for his HIV status, Boone never revealing he was positive. The case underlines the contention of criminalizing HIV/AIDS transmission, including creating a hysteria around awareness and education of the disease, as well as the issue of personal responsibility, the victim in the case yet to reveal why he would accept the word of stranger instead of advocating for himself, and insisting on safer-sex.

Jack Frew, an openly gay 16 year old, was brutally killed Thursday past while he walked with a friend along a woodland area in the Mossneuk area of East Kilbride, Scotland. Frew, a popular student at Duncarig Secondary School, according to police, suffered “a violent attack.” The friend, whom at one time dated Frew, is recovering in hospital. Moments ago, police arrested a 17 year old youth. He is police custody and will make an appearance in court Monday.

A report on the critical work being done by Project Q, an adjunct program for gay and questioning youth run by the Milwaukee LBGT Community Center, having created a safe space of support for gay youth who are often at a significantly higher risk for depression, substance abuse, and suicide than their straight peers.

David Harris, a 63 year old former teacher and head of a special school in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, who was to appear in court last Tuesday on charges he sexually abused five boys between the years 1972 and 1990, was found dead, police confirming Sunday. When Harris failed to appear in court, a warrant was issued for his arrest, however his body was found Wednesday in the bedroom of his home in Plymouth, England. Hertfordshire police confirm Harris was charged with 30 sexual offenses, the victims all between the ages of seven and eight. He had planned to plead not guilty. The case, because of Harris’s apparent suicide, is now closed.