“As of March, we had 49 confirmed HIV-positive prostitutes in the city of Dayton,” Lt. Brian Johns, head of the narcotics and vice unit, said Thursday. Johns said every person, beginning in 2005, convicted of prostitution-related charges is ordered by the court to be tested for HIV. It is unclear how many of the convicted prostitutes, who tested positive, continue in the sex trade.
How many prostitutes work the city’s streets and hotels is not known. “I can tell you we have 30 to 40 chronic offenders with multiple convictions,” Johns said. There were 61 prostitution arrests in 2010, an increase of 27 percent from the 48 arrests in 2009. Prostitution-related arrests — loitering to solicit and soliciting — were down 21 percent in 2010 from 787 in 2009 to 686 last year.
Johns said Anderson admitted she was HIV-positive when she was arrested around 9:30 p.m. in an undercover operation in the 2400 block of North Main.
In January 2010, Anderson was sentenced to 1 year in prison for felony prostitution. She also was put under 3 years of supervised parole upon her release.
She told police at the time of her arrest that she had tested positive for HIV. When asked if she had sex with any customers, she responded: “Not today. I normally just take the money” and flee, according the police report of her November 2009 arrest. That arrest came two blocks away from Wednesday night’s arrest.
Earlier this week, a Warren County grand jury indicted Andre P. Davis, 29, of Cincinnati on nine counts of felonious assault for having sex with four women in Warren County without revealing he was HIV-positive, as required by state law. Davis also faces 15 similar charges in Hamilton County.
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