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NZ man fined for taking off condom during sex
A New Zealand man charged with putting a prostitute's life at risk by removing a condom during sex has been fined in a groundbreaking case, which was welcomed Friday by civil rights groups and "sex workers." Daniel Morgan, 48, was fined NZ$400 (US$269) and ordered to pay costs in the Christchurch District Court on Thursday after pleading guilty to the charge, the first of its kind under a new unsafe sex law, which is part of the 2003 Prostitution Reform Act. The maximum fine under the act is NZ$2,000. ¡°As a test case, it was a minimum fine but it shows that the Act is working,¡± Calum Bennachie of the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective said. ¡°The social penalty is a lot larger. He is a married man, his name was given in open court as having gone along to a sex worker, so there¡¯s a lot of stigmatization that goes along with that as well,¡± he said. Outside the court, the prostitute told reporters that she would have to wait for another six weeks before tests could determine whether she had contracted the HIV/AIDS virus. ¡°It feels like a death sentence. I still don¡¯t know whether it will be or not,¡± the unidentified prostitute said. Morgan told the court he had removed the condom without the prostitute¡¯s knowledge because he knew that she would not have consented to having sex without one. ¡°Quite often the stigmatization will prevent other people from doing the same thing,¡± Bennachie said. The case was widely reported by New Zealand media and details of it were confirmed by police and government officials Friday.
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