TENNESEE
WCMA
By Nick Kenney
MEMPHIS, TN (WMC) –
A former Mid-South preacher was sentenced to five years in prison for knowingly spreading HIV. One day after the sentencing, Rodney Carr filed a motion for a new trial.
For the pastor who, while spreading the good word, was also spreading a potentially deadly virus, was his sentence tough enough?
“I believe he should be severely punished for hurting people’s lives,” said Frederick Delbridge, who lives in Memphis. “You don’t never do bad when you got a chance and an opportunity to do good. You know, that was very evil of him and selfish.”
Carr was once an ordained minister at Fellowship of Believers in Christ Church. He was notified he had HIV in 2005, but during a relationship in 2010 and 2011, he never told his girlfriend. She, as a result, is also HIV positive.
After his 2012 arrest, prosecutors say he set up a profile on an online dating website.
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