"He used to joke around with colleagues saying, 'If I wanted to infect someone with one of these viruses they'd never even know what hit them,'" Jackson says.
By the time Jackson was 11 months old, his mother and father had all but lost contact. But when Jackson was hospitalised following an asthma attack, his mother picked up the phone.
"My mother called my father to let him know - she assumed he'd want to know his son was sick. When she called, his colleagues said, 'Bryan Stewart doesn't have a kid.'"
The day Jackson was due to be discharged, Stewart paid an unexpected visit to the hospital.
When the test came back, I was diagnosed with full-blown Aids and three opportunistic infections
"He wasn't a very active father so everyone thought it was strange when he showed up," Jackson says.
"He sent my Mum down to the cafeteria to get a drink so he was alone with me."
When the coast was clear, Stewart took out a vial of HIV-tainted blood and injected it into his son.
"He was hoping I would die off so he wouldn't have to pay child support," Jackson says.
His mother returned to find him screaming in his father's arms. "My vital signs were all out of whack because it wasn't just HIV blood he had injected me with, it was incompatible with mine."
The father actually deserves the death sentence. I can't imagine a more gruesome act of betrayal that a person could commit. Clearly a psychopath that can't be rehabilitated. What a depressing way for that poor guy to enter the world
wtf i just searched this and it seems like he first spoke about it in April 2016 but his father injected him at 11 months , which makes this even more sick.
"People get confused. They think my sense of humour is a coping strategy, but I believe if you have the ability to laugh at tragedy and bad things that happen in your life, you're not coping… you've got power."
