ROMANIA: Panic among dozens of female mourners at their "Romeo's" funeral when they discover he died of AIDS

                          

A total of 40 young women in a town of Segarcea, Romania are awaiting their HIV test results after they only found out at the funeral of their former lover Daniel Decu, (pictured above) had died of the virus.

Although Mr Decu-24, was registered as living with the condition, as said, he contracted the condition in a hospital as a young child, but it only became known to the public when an autopsy was carried out and a coroner's report published.

A local doctor, Dr. Cornel Stanciu, their family physician, in the town of Segarcea, in south-eastern Romania's Dolj County, tried to warn people that Decu was suffering from the disease after the 24-year-old had a relationship with his daughter. But however, kept mute when he was threatened with a lawsuit by the man's mother, Elena Secu.(Read more after the cut)...

The doctor said: "I knew he had a lot of female friends but there was nothing I could do about it. I'm not surprised that we now are in the position that we are, because he had many female friends."

According the Elena-45, all of the women that her son had relationships with knew that he had been suffering from HIV since he was little. 

"They all knew, I don't know why they are saying these things now. Dani went to the psychologist to prepare himself for living with the virus, and I told him he had to use protection, I was telling it to him from the age of 12. My boy had condoms in his pocket all the time. I want this case to be resolved, and for my boy to rest in peace in his grave. He died because of tuberculosis, not from any complications as a result of suffering from the HIV virus," Elena said.

Eight out of 40 young women have tested HIV positive and the search for more victims has now widened to Italy, after his mother admitted he had spent a year in the country living a party lifestyle that left him sick when he returned to Romania, where he died a year later.  

The Mayor of Segarcea, Nicolae Popa, said: "The boy's mother is to blame for the terrible situation that we now find ourselves in. It is only now that it has become clear that the family physician knew he was HIV positive and tried to make the situation public. When he started to do so he was threatened with a lawsuit by Daniel's mother."

Although it is impossible to take any action against the dead man, his mother and family are being investigated as well as others who knew about his condition. Aids remains the only disease specifically mentioned in a Romanian criminal law, where it says the transmission of the virus by a person who already knows he or she is infected can be punishable with a jail term of between five and 15 years.

However the law specifies that there is no need to inform a physical partner of the infection, but there is an obligation to practice safe sex.

Daniel's aunt Maria said: "Dani contacted the HIV virus at the Segarcea Hospital. At the time he was taken to hospital, several children were also infected. I know another three individuals that died, while others still live. My nephew is not guilty of anything. There are girls who had intimate relations with him, and the blood test came out negative so why is he to blame for those that are positive?"

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