A California man, with strong ties to the Central Valley, is being accused of spreading HIV intentionally.
Thomas Guerra, who also goes by the name Ashton Chavez, works as a landscape architect and claims he's the grand-nephew of civil rights leader Cesar Chavez. The 29-year-old is now being investigated by the San Diego City Attorney's office for spreading HIV to others on purpose.
"It's criminal, it's sociopathic. He has no understanding, any attempt to care for what these people are going through," said a person who wanted to remain anonymous.
Our sister station in San Diego spoke with the person who says he was infected by the Guerra. He did not want to be identified. "I know of 24 individuals that have been impacted by this. I'm hearing that there could be hundreds."
"You know in my heart I can't believe that. I cannot and I don't believe that he really is doing that. I don't want to believe it," said Roseana Alvarado, a family friend of Guerra, "His parents were very angry when he found out he was gay. I took him in. He needed someone to love him."
The young man who stands as Guerra’s accuser spoke candidly with his interviewer, Jennifer Jensen:
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“I honestly feel like I am living some crazy Lifetime movie. I was hours away from proposing to this individual. This is someone that I loved, I’ve loved his family, I’ve spent multiple holidays with his family, he’s been home with me to my family. This is someone that I intended to spend the rest of my life with. I don’t even know who I was living with. I don’t know who I had fallen in love with. There’s hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands, of text messages where he’s talking about intentionally infecting people with HIV. Texts where he’s stating he’s negative to people then bragging to others about giving people his ‘positive load.’ It’s crude, it’s…I don’t know how someone could treat another individual like that.
It should be a crime (if it isn't already), if you knowingly have a transmittable disease and purposefully spread it to people. Isn't that, in one way or another, biological warfare on a smaller scale? It's sickening that there are people who think that just because they have it, it doesn't matter if they spread it or not.
It should be a crime (if it isn't already), if you knowingly have a transmittable disease and purposefully spread it to people. Isn't that, in one way or another, biological warfare on a smaller scale? It's sickening that there are people who think that just because they have it, it doesn't matter if they spread it or not.
It is. I hope he never sees daylight in his life again. He DESTROYED so many innocent lifes just because he's a crazy psychopath Zero tolerance here for this.
This is why I'm so afraid of "hooking up". Even if it's protected, you never know if a guy is some creep or psycho. He could poke holes in the damn condom.
But he didn't force his partners to have unprotected sex, did he?
He still didn't disclose his true status it's his responsibility to do so.
Yes it is risky to have unprotected sex with someone you don't know but it takes two.
He still didn't disclose his true status it's his responsibility to do so.
Yes it is risky to have unprotected sex with someone you don't know but it takes two.
I'm not trying to justify his horrible actions but like you said, it literally takes two.
Zero tolerance here for this.
