HIV-positive man guilty of uninformed sex

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, July 16 (UPI) -- A court in Winnipeg, Canada, has found an HIV-positive man guilty of having unprotected sex with six young women who were unaware of his infection.

Clato Mabior, 31, was sentenced Tuesday to six counts of aggravated sexual assault, along with two additional counts of sexual touching and sexual interference, the Winnipeg Sun reported Wednesday.

Justice Joan McKelvey dismissed Mabior's defense lawyer's claims Mabior's "viral load" was so low he was incapable of passing on the HIV virus, and called Mabior a "sexual predator" in her written decision.

"He knowingly withheld that information from his sexual partners on the basis that in all likelihood they would not have engaged in sexual contact with him," McKelvey wrote.

A sentencing date has not been set, but prosecutors said they would seek a lengthy prison sentence followed by the deportation of Mabior, who has refugee status from Sudan, the newspaper said.