‘I can’t transmit it’: Police officer with HIV hid illness from woman he impregnated, then tried to claim she and the baby ‘can’t get it’: Police

A Florida police officer is charged with not disclosing his HIV status to a woman he got pregnant, which is a felony. The cop tried to tell the woman “I can’t transmit it” and “you and the baby can’t get it,” according to court documents.

“I’m sick,” Pensacola police officer Pierce Cotton told the pregnant woman, according to his arrest report. Another mother that he had a child with in a previous relationship had reached out to the woman and told her she was “concerned” for her health, according to the report.

“It’s under control, and that’s been proven,” Cotton allegedly texted her. “You can’t contract it.”…

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