Man on trial for spreading word on STD

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., April 15 (UPI) -- A Florida man is on trial, charged with distributing fliers describing how his former girlfriend gave him a sexually transmitted disease.

Hance Adams is charged under a rarely used Florida law making malicious dissemination of the information that someone has an STD a felony, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. He also is charged with battery and child abuse for allegedly leaving fliers at the school his ex-girlfriend's son attends.

On Tuesday, a friend of the ex-girlfriend described going to the school and trying to gather up the fliers.

A prosecutor told the jury that the victim did have genital herpes and did not tell Adams until she had infected him. But he apparently had no problem with the infection until she broke up with him.

"Since she would not have him back, he was going to make her life a living hell," Fara Gold said. "And he dragged this 12-year-old boy into it."

Adams' attorneys said he broke up with her because of her extreme possessiveness, including late-night telephone calls to check up on him.

Adams has addresses in both Lauderhill, Fla., and Greensboro, N.C.