HIV- positive homosexual who raped boy sentenced to 17- 40 years in prison

[Bradley K. Sperman]

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CARLISLE, Pa. — A Harrisburg man will service 17.5-40 years in
prison, followed by 66 and 1/3 years consecutive supervision for
raping a 6 year-old boy.

Ira Task, 62, pleaded guilty in March. He admitted to raping the
boy and also admitted to wearing no protection despite knowing
he was HIV-positive since 1994.

Task arranged the rape through 19-year-old William Byers-
Augusta, of North Middleton Township, Cumberland County. Byers-
Augusta is also charged with child rape and creation of child
porn after he live streamed video on the internet of his own
sexual abuse of the victim.

Court documents state the rape occurred on April 20, 2015, at a
Task’s home on North 2nd Street in Harrisburg.

Text messages on Byers-Augusta’s phone showed that he had
planned and delivered the victim to Task at his home.

Police say the video shows Task drugging the child with an
inhalant, both men abusing him, and then Task raping him.

Byers-Augusta and Task still have federal charges pending
against them.

http://fox43.com/2016/06/06/hiv-positive-man-who-raped-boy-
sentenced-to-17-40-years-in-prison/

[Dänk 42Ø]

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CARLISLE, Pa. � A Harrisburg man will service 17.5-40 years in
prison, followed by 66 and 1/3 years consecutive supervision for
raping a 6 year-old boy.
Ira Task, 62, pleaded guilty in March. He admitted to raping the
boy and also admitted to wearing no protection despite knowing
he was HIV-positive since 1994.

<rant>

The only reason he was prosecuted was because this was a case of
child rape. The fact that he had unprotected sex despite knowing
his HIV-positive status had absolutely no influence in the
decision to prosecute.

Being gay and having a gay relative with HIV, I have absolutely
no sympathy for adults who contract the virus through consensual
sex. The way they approached the epidemic in the 1980s disgusts
me. Instead of testing and quarantine (which might have put a
dent in it), they treated the victims like a combination of
heroes and martyrs and gave them free money. This continued well
into the 1990s, long after how the virus was transmitted was known
to everyone who hadn't been living under a rock since 1981.

Furthermore, though not technically a "gay disease," our society
treats it like one when it comes to prosecutions for deliberate
HIV transmission. An HIV+ gay man who infects another gay man
is NEVER prosecuted. The only prosecutions I've seen involve
HIV+ men -- gay, bi, or straight -- who infect women. Or children,
though as I already mentioned, the charge here was child rape,
not transmission of the virus. I could imagine a possible
prosecution for male-on-male HIV transmission if the victim
was a teenage boy just barely of legal age of consent, but I
don't know of any. Someone care to help find out?

</rant>