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The Associated Press - Saturday November 20, 1999
Jose Blazquez also had hepatitis C, which he passed on to the victim.
Doctors say the woman has not been contaminated with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Hepatisis C can lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer.
The assault occurred in January 1998 in the town of Badalona in the Catalonia region of northeast Spain. The 26-year-old woman says she has been unable to work since the attack and that her marriage has fallen apart.
The judge said Friday that Blazquez, 33, ruined the woman's life with behavior that was "gratuitous and absolutely perverse."
Prosecutors said Blazquez came out of a drug rehabilitation clinic where he was undergoing treatment and - along with another person who has not been identified - robbed the woman.
She handed over $19, a watch and her wedding ring.
Blazquez, apparently unsatisfied, produced a syringe while his companion restrained the woman. He then extracted blood from his left hand and ordered the companion to inject it into her, prosecutors said.
Blazquez also was ordered to pay the victim $160,000 in damages.
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