Cedar Rapids man sentenced for knowingly giving 3 HIV

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Cedar Rapids, Ia (AP)- A Cedar Rapids man has been sentenced to 26 years in prison after admitting that he knowingly infected two women and an underaged girl with HIV.

33-year-old Lamont James was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to two counts of assault while participating in a felony, and four counts of criminal transmission of an infectious or contagious disease, according to the Cedar Rapids Gazette.

James admitted during a court hearing held by phone because of the coronavirus pandemic that he had physical contact with a 13-year-old girl as well as three other women.  The girl and two of the women were infected with HIV, the third was not.