When sex offender Robert Suttle moved to town, police went door to door to warn Milford business owners and residents. His crime? See full article text Suttle, who is HIV-positive, had sex with his partner. Though consensual, it was an act that landed him in a hard-labor prison, branded him a sex offender and changed his life.
Guilty of illness: Milford man, a convicted sex offender, seeks to educate: HIV is not a crime
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