Mother fights confinement of NY man who spread HIV
The Associated PressRelatives of a New York man who recently completed a 12-year prison sentence for knowingly infecting at least 13 women with the AIDS virus say there's no reason the state should keep him locked up any longer.
The wife and mother of Nushawn Williams spoke outside a Buffalo courtroom Wednesday after the attorney general's office began efforts to keep him confined under a civil law meant to keep the most dangerous sex offenders out of communities after their sentences are completed.
Williams was assigned a lawyer at Wednesday's procedural hearing. He will be back in court May 6.
Williams infected the women in western New York in the late 1990s. He says he doesn't remember being told by health officials that he was HIV-positive.
Williams now goes by the name Shyteek Johnson.