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{What to do with HIV-positive Jennifer Murphy and the Russian roulette she plays with her sex partners?}
Nymphomania: Derogatory and antiquated term used to describe an over-sexed woman; punch line to stand-up comic jokes in the Mad Men era.Sex addiction: Can be male or female with aggressive sexual compulsions; disputed as a physiological and/or psychological malady and dropped from latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.Incorrigible slag: Jennifer Murphy.The 40-year-old, however, has defined herself as an HIV educator and addictions counsellor. Also, simply, a sexy woman.In the prisoner’s dock of a Barrie courthouse on Tuesday, Murphy did not appear remotely sexy,michael kors canada, though this is obviously a subjective opinion. Ashen, blowsy, maybe 30 pounds heavier than the last time we laid eyes on her nine months ago — time spent in custody.That Murphy had sex with three men in one week is not relevant. Probably far from unusual on the free-for-all pick-up scene. Murphy’s modus operandi isn’t germane either. Instructive, however: One fellow told court she’d approached him as he sat drinking beer on the stoop of his boarding house,Michael Kors Handbags, got flirty, they had some brews, smoked some grass,michael kors canada, went inside for sex. The second guy said he met Murphy outside a convenience store and he performed oral sex on her for $20. She denies ever taking any money. The third man also came across Murphy at a Barrie convenience store — around 8 a.m., he’d been on his way to work — whereupon she jumped in his van and they had intercourse.In a videotaped police statement — this after cops came upon her partly dressed in a sleazy part of town, trousers around her knees — Murphy, spewing profanities, was indignant when questioned about whether there had been other recent sexual partners. “Just because I’m sexy doesn’t mean I’m going to hop on every man I see.”Except the record suggests that’s pretty much what Murphy did.Still, not a matter for the courts, since Murphy hasn’t been charged with a prostitution-related offence. If prostitution were her game, her conduct — sex work — would be more defensible.So,Michael Kors Handbags Outlet, what game was she playing back in September 2011, when these intimate acts occurred?What Murphy did not do was tell any of the three sexual partners that she was HIV-positive and no condom was used. In Canada,Michael Kors Outlet, that’s a crime. Only last year, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling unanimously absolving HIV carriers of the legal obligation to inform sex partners about their status — as long as they have a low load of the virus and use a condom.A week ago, Murphy was found guilty by Justice Gregory Mulligan on one count of aggravated sexual assault — the van intercourse incident — because,Michael Kors Handbags Outlet, though the virus was almost undetectable and she was on anti-viral medication, the man was nevertheless exposed to a significant risk with no condom used. Murphy was acquitted on the two other charges of aggravated sexual assault. In one case the “victim” — himself a convicted sexual offender,Michael Kors Outlet, which he didn’t disclose — was deemed not credible; in the other, there was no risk, Mulligan concluded, because the man “only’’ performed oral sex on Murphy.The woman has a long history of not telling. Murphy gain national notoriety in 2005 when she was convicted of having unprotected sex with two soldiers from CFB Borden without disclosing her HIV status to them. Such was the alarm triggered by Murphy’s arrest that soldiers from the base area were urged to seek medical attention if they suspected they’d had sexual relations with her.Murphy was given one year of house arrest and ordered to return to her home province of Newfoundland after the sentence was completed, a kind of in-country deportation. Whilst in Newfoundland she was nailed again, for the same reason, though the Crown subsequently withdrew the charge after Murphy insisted a condom had been used. In a newspaper interview she gave at the time,Michael Kors Handbags, Murphy was defiant: “I’m a liberated woman and there isn’t anything that’s going to shut me up,” she said, vowing to be an activist for the HIV community and safe sex practices. “I’ve been slandered, degraded and discriminated against.”Then she returned to the Barrie area.Murphy has twice gone AWOL on strict bail conditions and was a no-show at her trial last year, eventually picked up by cops at a Toronto squat, in custody ever since.What to do with this woman, who is so clearly heedless and reckless and her own worst enemy, to say nothing of the Russian roulette she plays with her unknowing sex partners? Murphy was to be sentenced yesterday but the prosecution asked for and got an adjournment. Bhavna Bhangu told court the Crown is considering having Murphy designated a long-term offender — this needs to be approved by the attorney general — and would seek a sentence of no less than two years, a penitentiary term. Bhangu has also been unable to reach the man involved, who is entitled to give a victim impact statement.Murphy’s lawyer, Angela McLeod was livid over the development, which she’d only learned about just before court began, calling the manoeuvre “an abhorrent misuse of the justice system . . . it’s outrageous.”McLeod didn’t object to the victim making an impact statement “other than I hope he apologizes to his wife, for putting her health at risk and betraying his marital vows.”A man, a van, and slam-bam-thank-you-ma’am sex.Apparently, he’s the villain. Murphy, vixen, is just the vessel.Rosie DiManno usually appears Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday |
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