TRUVADA-HIV positive man charged with having sex without alerting partner - Orlando Sentinel

An inmate booked on misdemeanors last week in Orange County is now facing a felony charge after a woman came forward to report that he'd had sex with her without telling her that he is HIV positive, an arrest affidavit states.

The woman came forward Saturday, the day she learned 52-year-old Isaac Mitchell was HIV positive, according to the affidavit. She told a deputy that she had been in a sexual relationship with Mitchell for a few months.

She said that, during sexual encounters, Mitchell wore a condom, but never told her of his diagnosis. In Florida, it's illegal for an HIV-positive person who is aware of the infection to have sex without alerting the partner.

Records show Mitchell had already been in the Orange County Jail since Thursday on open container and marijuana possession charges, when he was arrested again Tuesday on the HIV-related charge, a first-degree felony.

If convicted, Mitchell faces up to 30 years in prison. He is also accused of violating his probation in a 2009 conviction for grand theft of a motor vehicle, court records show. He remained in the county jail Wednesday night.

Records show Mitchell has been sentenced to state prison twice before, in 1990 and 2001, on cocaine-related charges.

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