{"id":19141,"date":"2019-02-13T22:04:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T22:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19141"},"modified":"2019-02-13T22:04:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T22:04:59","slug":"crown-stays-sex-assault-charges-against-hiv-positive-man-in-yellowknife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/crown-stays-sex-assault-charges-against-hiv-positive-man-in-yellowknife\/","title":{"rendered":"Crown stays sex assault charges against HIV-positive man in Yellowknife"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><span class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/BBTvEYz.img?h=152&amp;w=270&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=f&amp;l=f&amp;x=320&amp;y=168\" alt=\"a person looking at the camera: Charges of sexual assault against Bobby Kaotalok were stayed in N.W.T. territorial court Tuesday in Yellowknife.\" \/> <\/span> <span class=\"caption truncate\"> <span class=\"attribution\">\u00a9 CBC<\/span> Charges of sexual assault against Bobby Kaotalok were stayed in N.W.T. territorial court Tuesday in Yellowknife. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>A 2018 directive from Canada&#8217;s former justice minister has led Crown attorneys to drop a sexual-assault charge against a man with HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Kaotalok was charged with sexual assault in Yellowknife after allegedly not disclosing his HIV-positive status to a sex partner. But in Northwest Territories Territorial Court on Tuesday, prosecutors announced they wouldn&#8217;t go ahead with the case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We followed the directive and chose not to prosecute,&#8221; said Crown attorney Alex\u00a0Godfrey. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/crimeincanada\/crown-stays-sex-assault-charges-against-hiv-positive-man-in-yellowknife\/ar-BBTvzSB?li=AAggXBV\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\u00a9 CBC Charges of sexual assault against Bobby Kaotalok were stayed in N.W.T. territorial court Tuesday in Yellowknife. A 2018 directive from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}