HIV-positive man
sentenced to 25 years for sexual assaults

An HIV-positive man was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to the sexual assaults of two people last year. Darrell J. Alderton, 42, of Iowa City, Iowa, pleaded guilty in May to two counts of criminal transmission of HIV. Each charge carries a 25-year sentence, but Judge Robert Sosalla ordered the sentences to run concurrently. Two counts of third-degree sexual abuse and a charge of false imprisonment were dismissed.

Alderton was charged with sexually assaulting a fellow inmate at the Johnson County jail in June 2005. He was in jail after being arrested in May 2005 for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy at his apartment. Alderton said the sex was consensual but that he did not tell the boy he had HIV. (AP)