http://www.postchronicle.com/news/health/article_212271853.shtmlAn HIV-positive man was convicted in Auckland, New Zealand, of twice injecting his sleeping wife with his infected blood.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported in its Sunday edition the 35-year-old man is awaiting sentencing in Auckland High Court after being convicted of willfully infecting another with a disease.
The man's 33-year-old wife accused her husband of using a sewing needle laced with his blood to prick her on two separate occasions as she slept.
The woman also said she caught her husband with a syringe filled with his infected blood on a separate occasion. The identities of the man and his wife were not released.
The woman told the court during her husband's trial that she confronted her husband in late 2008 after she was diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus, which can lead to AIDS.
"All he said was he was sorry. He said 'I used needles on you because I wanted you to be the same as me so that you can live with me and you won't leave me,'" she said.
The Morning Herald said the male defendant is facing up to 14 years in prison at his early 2010 sentencing.
