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Miami Herald (MH) - Saturday July 27, 1991
Dexter Filkins; Herald Staff Writer
State prosecutors charged Taylor with prostitution and knowingly spreading the HIV virus, which causes AIDS. She also faces four city violations.
Taylor, due to have her baby in less than a week, revealed Friday that she delivered a stillborn infant two years ago while in the county jail.
The new charges, coupled with the news of her past, seemed to compound Taylor's personal problems.
Taylor sat in the jury box during the hearing, dressed in shorts and a long-sleeve shirt, looking angry and agitated. Several times she blew her blond hair out from in front of her eyes.
Broward County Judge Kathleen Kearney ordered Taylor, 23, held on the high bond Thursday, the morning after police arrested her for allegedly having sex with a customer.
Kearney said she imposed the harsh bond to protect the public from a woman who showed no inclination to stop exposing others to the virus.
Since testing positive for the HIV virus 2 1/2 months ago, Taylor has been arrested six times on charges of prostitution and public indecency, police said.
Broward County Judge Susan Lebow ordered Taylor held at the north county branch of the Broward Jail, which has a section for pregnant women.
Taylor vehemently objected, saying she didn't want to return to the place where she delivered her stillborn baby two years ago.
She shook her head several times when Lebow announced her decision.
"It won't do any good," she said at one point.
Assistant Public Defender Doug Brawley said Taylor would be taken to Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale when it's time to deliver her baby.
In addition to the state counts, Taylor faces city charges for public indecency, solicitation for prostitution, hitchhiking and culpable negligence.
Those counts carry potential 90-day jail sentences. The HIV charge carries a potential one-year jail sentence and the state prostitution charge carries a maximum six-month term.
Brawley didn't want to discuss details of Taylor's case, but he said she wants a healthy baby.
"She realizes the street is not the best environment to have a baby," Brawley said. "But she is very upset about having to go to the Pompano jail.
"She is very, very distraught," Brawley said.
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