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NZ man fined for taking off condom during sex
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-07-18 08:36
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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