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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

High Safety Risk More Than Evident

On the evidence, and there appears to be plenty of it, Johnson Aziga should be declared a dangerous offender. With that status, he should be incarcerated for life. A harsh sentence to be sure, but he has more than earned the distinction of being regarded as a high safety risk. He offended repeatedly, and his offences resulted in the deaths of two innocent women, the severe illness of many more.

The man is clearly without conscience. He lethally infected two women with HIV. Five other women were infected with the fatal virus while four other partners tested negative despite exposure. He will continue to pose a high safety risk for women because he is a sexual predator.

He is obviously a sociopath with little compassion for the risks to which he casually exposes women.

In all of his consensual interactions with women he failed to divulge to them that he was HIV-positive. At trial in 2009, a jury found the man guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, ten counts of aggravated assault and one count of attempted aggravated assault for unprotected sex with women who had no idea he was a danger to them.

A court-appointed forensic psychiatrist who examined the man felt himself unable to conclude whether the man would continue to present as a danger to women. "(Aziga) is not a typical sex offender" Dr. Philip Klassen informed the court. "We don't know enough of the behavioural patterns of these offenders post-sentencing ... in order to extrapolate to this man".

Does not his background, and his cavalier attitude toward the health and safety of women, along with his record and conviction speak for itself?

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