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19 October 2020 24 years of sentence for Valentino Talluto, the man accused of very serious injuries for having infected dozens of partners with the HIV virus.

The judges of the Court of Assizes of Appeal of Rome, after a partial annulment of the Cassation, have today decided.

In particular, the judges decided after the civil parties, two of which assisted by the lawyer Irma Conti, appealed to the Supreme Court together with the Attorney General.

In practice, the sentence of the first instance sentence was confirmed today, bringing the sentence back to 24 years. 



According to the prosecution, the accused, starting in 2006, deliberately infected his partners with unprotected sexual relations.

Talluto had been sentenced in the first instance on 27 October 2017 to 24 years in prison when the judges had found him guilty of the crime of very serious injuries, but not of that of a malicious epidemic: and for which the prosecutors had asked for a life sentence.

On 11 December 2018 the sentence was then reduced to 22 years for very serious injuries with possible intent and acquitted for the four cases that will have to be reviewed.



Overall, the young man was attributed 57 episodes, 32 of direct or indirect contagion, and 25 escaped thanks to the presence of antibodies.

Twenty five people had filed a civil action.

Among the victims also an 8-month-old baby born to one of the infected women.

According to the indictment Talluto had discovered his HIV status in April 2006.



From that moment he had had unprotected sex until the day before his arrest.

The man approached his victims through chat or social networks, offering them sex without a condom to feel more pleasure, and has always claimed not to be aware of the consequences that could create his HIV. 



Talluto was the first trial of this kind in Italy.

The investigation began in 2015 thanks to the complaint of one of the victims and had taken Talluto to prison in November of the same year.

The lawyer Irma Conti, who represented the civil party, expressed satisfaction with the decision of the judges.

One of the girls assisted by the criminal lawyer was unaware that she was HIV positive and passed HIV to her boyfriend.