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i'm reading this story and i just can't understand what's in this woman's head.
couple of questions:
1. would you be able to support your mate, whether male or female if they behaved this way?
2. do you think she's only voicing her support because she has now been dragged into the public eye?
3. or is she just stupid?
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REGINA (CP) - The wife who steadfastly stood behind her HIV-positive husband as the sordid details of his affairs were exposed in court broke down in sobs Thursday as the former football player was hauled away to jail.
Trevis Smith, a one-time Canadian Football League linebacker, was convicted of aggravated sexual assault for exposing two women to the virus that causes AIDS by having unprotected sex without telling them about his condition.
Provincial court Judge Kenn Bellerose, who delayed sentencing until Feb. 26, warned Smith he will be going to prison.
"I'll be brutally honest with you. It's not going to be a community-based sentence," Bellerose told Smith's lawyer. "In my mind, all I'm looking at is what length of penitentiary sentence."
It appeared to be too much for Smith's wife, Tamika, who had sat in the front row of the public gallery through her husband's week-long trial and even testified in his defence.
As Smith waved while being taken away by guards, she collapsed in tears and had to be comforted by supporters.
"Very devastated," she told reporters on the courthouse steps. "We have two small kids that I have to explain (to) that daddy is not coming home."
The charges were laid after the two women - one from British Columbia and the other from Regina - came forward in the fall of 2005.
Neither has tested positive for the virus.
The woman from Regina, whom Smith at one point appeared to glare at as Bellerose read his decision, left court without speaking to anyone.
The woman from B.C., who wasn't in court for the decision, was overjoyed when contacted at home.
"I honestly feel ten pounds lighter," she said in an interview with The Canadian Press. "Finally I can close this chapter in my life. I'm finally done with this part of my life and can move on."
The decision also brought closure to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, a team Smith spent seven years with before his arrest.
"The whole situation has just been extremely unfortunate, I think, for so many people," said team president Jim Hopson.
"Certainly the whole incident has not been good for the reputation of the team, but I think at this point in time, we're looking forward."
During the trial, the B.C. woman testified she had a relationship with Smith that spanned more than three years.
She said the two had unprotected sex numerous times after he found out he was HIV-positive in November 2003. But he never told her he had the virus, she testified, even when he knew she planned to donate a kidney to her ailing father.
Smith testified he told the woman about his condition in August 2004 and that the two used condoms during sex from that point.
The revelation that he disclosed his status to the woman ran counter to a "general admission that Mr. Smith did not inform his sexual partners that he was HIV-positive." That admission was entered into evidence by Smith's lawyers at the start of the trial.
crying wife
couple of questions:
1. would you be able to support your mate, whether male or female if they behaved this way?
2. do you think she's only voicing her support because she has now been dragged into the public eye?
3. or is she just stupid?
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REGINA (CP) - The wife who steadfastly stood behind her HIV-positive husband as the sordid details of his affairs were exposed in court broke down in sobs Thursday as the former football player was hauled away to jail.
Trevis Smith, a one-time Canadian Football League linebacker, was convicted of aggravated sexual assault for exposing two women to the virus that causes AIDS by having unprotected sex without telling them about his condition.
Provincial court Judge Kenn Bellerose, who delayed sentencing until Feb. 26, warned Smith he will be going to prison.
"I'll be brutally honest with you. It's not going to be a community-based sentence," Bellerose told Smith's lawyer. "In my mind, all I'm looking at is what length of penitentiary sentence."
It appeared to be too much for Smith's wife, Tamika, who had sat in the front row of the public gallery through her husband's week-long trial and even testified in his defence.
As Smith waved while being taken away by guards, she collapsed in tears and had to be comforted by supporters.
"Very devastated," she told reporters on the courthouse steps. "We have two small kids that I have to explain (to) that daddy is not coming home."
The charges were laid after the two women - one from British Columbia and the other from Regina - came forward in the fall of 2005.
Neither has tested positive for the virus.
The woman from Regina, whom Smith at one point appeared to glare at as Bellerose read his decision, left court without speaking to anyone.
The woman from B.C., who wasn't in court for the decision, was overjoyed when contacted at home.
"I honestly feel ten pounds lighter," she said in an interview with The Canadian Press. "Finally I can close this chapter in my life. I'm finally done with this part of my life and can move on."
The decision also brought closure to the Saskatchewan Roughriders, a team Smith spent seven years with before his arrest.
"The whole situation has just been extremely unfortunate, I think, for so many people," said team president Jim Hopson.
"Certainly the whole incident has not been good for the reputation of the team, but I think at this point in time, we're looking forward."
During the trial, the B.C. woman testified she had a relationship with Smith that spanned more than three years.
She said the two had unprotected sex numerous times after he found out he was HIV-positive in November 2003. But he never told her he had the virus, she testified, even when he knew she planned to donate a kidney to her ailing father.
Smith testified he told the woman about his condition in August 2004 and that the two used condoms during sex from that point.
The revelation that he disclosed his status to the woman ran counter to a "general admission that Mr. Smith did not inform his sexual partners that he was HIV-positive." That admission was entered into evidence by Smith's lawyers at the start of the trial.
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