She’s HIV-Positive?
Posted on May 18th, 2011 in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
The New York Post reports—in a story with interesting ethical complications—that the maid allegedly sexually assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn was living in housing reserved for HIV-positive persons.
The Post was the first to report (yesterday) that the DSK camp might argue that DSK and the maid had consensual sex. (The Times reported the same thing…today.)
I wonder how other papers will handle this revelation?
One Response
5/18/2011 1:39 pm
Interesting ethical complications, indeed: I’m appalled by the media’s intensive reporting of information about a possible victim of a sex crime: the French press has published her name, the American press has reported her age, her marital status, when she came to the us and from where, the age and sex of her child, how long she’s worked at the hotel, where she lives, and now her HIV status?! And people wonder why women don’t report sex crimes.