DALLAS, June 18 (UPI) -- Dallas prosecutors told a judge a 31-year-old HIV-positive man should received 95 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old, to whom he passed on the virus.
Matthew Louis Reese pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated sexual assault of a child with a deadly weapon, aggravated sexual assault with serious bodily injury and sexual assault of a child, in exchange for 55, 20 and 20 years in prison, respectively.
Prosecutors asked visiting Judge Pat McDowell to stack the sentences consecutively, keeping Reese in prison for 95 years.
Reese admitted to beginning a sexual relationship with the girl when she was 15 years old. He was diagnosed with HIV in 2006 and was told by a doctor how to prevent spreading the disease.
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The victim, now 17, testified she had never had a boyfriend before Reese and told her parents he was really 18 years old. They met online in a chatroom in 2012.
The girl testified Reese pressured her into having sex in a car at a movie theater parking lot, telling her "it will make a man want to cheat" if they didn't. She said they had sex several times over the course of their 7-month relationship without using a condom.
The teen found out she was HIV positive in October.
"There was a point I was wishing the worst on him. I was wishing death on him. I really did. I still wish something bad would happen to him, in a way. I didn't deserve that. That's the way I look at it. So, I don't like him at all," she said.
McDowell is scheduled to hear more testimony on the case Wednesday, after which she'll issue a ruling.
