BUFFALO, N.Y., May 5 (UPI) -- New York state prosecutors say an AIDS-infected man who was imprisoned for having unprotected sex remains a danger to society.
A hearing is scheduled Thursday morning in Buffalo for Nushawn Williams, 33, The Buffalo News reports. The state wants Williams to be committed to a mental hospital as a sexual predator who had sex with underage women and deliberately infected them.
Williams, fighting civil commitment, says he did not know the ages of his victims, one of them only 13, and that he did not realize he was HIV-positive until after his arrest more than a decade ago. He also said he is sorry for his actions and hopes to go free so he can teach others about the dangers of life "in the fast lane."
"I put myself at risk as well as my sexual partners by not wearing protection as my grandmother always told me to do," he wrote in a statement to the News. "I was very ignorant, young and naive. Not only did I hurt myself with this disease, I hurt a number of people, families and females that I was involved with and brought shame to not only my family, but the whole human race."
