Darryl K. Womac

Darryl K. Womac, 38, is being held in lieu of $15,000 bond and did not comment on the charges.Womac, a computer programmer, was arrested in New Orl

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Darryl K. Womac, 38, was arrested at his New Orleans office Thursday and booked with one count of intentional exposure to HIV.He is free on $15,000 bond.The alleged victim, who lives in Zachary, told police she met Womac in Destin, Florida, last summer and that a five-month relationship ensued.Prosecutors in Baton Rouge will decide whether to charge Womac, a computer programmer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.The exposure charge carries a prison term of up to 10 years upon conviction.Womac's medical records show he tested HIV positive in 1998, police said.

Darryl K. Womac, 38, is being held in lieu of $15,000 bond and did not comment on the charges.

Womac, a computer programmer, was arrested in New Orleans and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish jail on a charge of intentionally exposing someone to HIV.
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The nurse filed her complaint last week after having unprotected sex with Womac repeatedly over 5 months before an anonymous caller told her that Womac had HIV.She asked Womac to take an AIDS test on September 12, and he informed her on January 15 that he was HIV-positive.On February 7, he wrote to her to say that he had not known he had HIV.

The woman found a prescription bottle for a well-known AIDS medicine, dated December 2000, in Womac's home, and detectives say medical records obtained with a court order show that Womac tested HIV-positive in July 1998.

If convicted, Womac could serve 10 years in prison.

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