German accused of infecting Thais with HIV
This was reporeted at Reuters on 10.19.2004:
CHAIYAPHUM - A one-legged German, accused of trying to infect nearly 100 teenage girls with HIV through unprotected sex, last night launched a tirade of abuse against Thai women, calling them "witches" and "monkeys".
Hans-Otto Schiemann, a 56-year-old former sailor from Schweinfurt in Bavaria, has become a figure of hate in northeastern Thailand, with posters plastered across the town of Chaiyaphum warning young women not to have sex with him.
Since Thailand has no laws dealing with people who deliberately infect others with the Aids virus, prosecutors have charged him only with immigration offences.
"Thai women are bad. Thai women are witches and they're monkeys," he told reporters outside the provincial court in Chaiyaphum, 340km northeast of Bangkok.
Residents say Schiemann, who has been in Thailand for much of the past decade, offered students aged from 15 to 17 around 4000 baht ($140) for sex as part of a campaign of vengeance against Thai women, whom he blames for his own HIV infection.
Sura Wisedsak, of the provincial health office, said that according to Schiemann's wife as many as 90 women had been deliberately exposed to HIV. If their other sexual partners were taken into account, the number of victims could be as high as 500.
Schiemann, who refused a prison blood test to confirm his HIV status, admitted he had HIV but said he had done nothing wrong, and had merely been an attractive figure in the relatively impoverished region because of his wealth.
He accused his Thai wife, Jiraporn Paktaku, who has Aids, of being part of a campaign to get him kicked out of the country. He is charged with overstaying a month-long tourist visa. The case has been adjourned until November 15.
The German Version Can be read here:
[url]http://www.bild.t-online.de/BTO/news/2004/10/19/thai-maedchen/thai-maedchen__s__ex__seppel.html[/url]