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Associated Press - November 14, 2008
Forty-five-year-old Peter Ayala was charged in June with one count of felonious assault under a state law making it a felony for a person who tested positive for HIV to conceal it from a sexual partner.
The former Delaware County resident was on the witness stand Thursday and denied hiding his diagnosis from the woman in question.
But a former victim's advocate testified that the woman was unaware Ayala was HIV-positive. A Delaware police detective told the jury that Ayala disclosed his status in a separate criminal case and said he had not told anyone but his mother.
Ayala responded that he had misspoken at that time.
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