Pensacola police officer charged with allegedly violating HIV statute

PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — An officer with the Pensacola Police Department has been arrested.

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According to a news release from the PPD, Pierce Cotton was arrested on Friday, March 13, and charged with allegedly violating Florida Statute 384.24(2).

This statute states that:

“It is unlawful for any person who has human immunodeficiency virus infection, when such person knows he or she is infected with this disease and when such person has been informed that he or she may communicate this disease to another person through sexual intercourse, to have sexual intercourse with any other person, unless such other person has been informed of the presence of the sexually transmissible disease and has consented to the sexual intercourse.”…

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