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Associated Press - November 15, 2007
Christer Merrill Aggett was also found guilty of six counts of having sex with minors.
The Solna District Court near Stockholm said the evidence against him was "convincing," and ordered him to undergo a psychiatric examination before sentencing.
He was charged in October with two counts of aggravated assault for allegedly infecting two girls he had sex with without telling them he was HIV-positive.
He was also charged with aggravated assault, or "exposing others to danger," by having unprotected sex with more than a dozen other women between 2001 and 2006. They were not infected with HIV.
Six of them, however, were under the age of 15 - the legal age of consent in Sweden - when the sexual encounters took place.
He had confessed to aggravated assault and attempting aggravated assault, but not to having had sex with underage girls.
Aggett's defense lawyer, Jonas Granfelt, did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
Police suspect Aggett had been in contact during the five-year with at least 130 women he met via Internet chat rooms.
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