Janitor dips genitals in water bottle, gives woman STD

brandon8283 said
There is video evidence of the "indecent assault" that he is being charged with. If he tests positive for the STD and she now has it, yes there's a defense argument that could be made, but barring any evidence of a prior relationship between her and the janitor (which seems unlikely at this point), it would fail and he would also be convicted of the aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Genome evidence probably not necessary with evidence or with a distinct lack of evidence of a prior relationship between the two.

Further, it probably doesn't matter if she got the STD from him or not. There is clear evidence that "aggravated assault with a deadly weapon" occurred, as having video that shows he put his STD-infected genitals in contact with her water bottle is already proof that the assault with a deadly weapon occurred, whether or not the assault was successful.

If I attack you with a knife but don't manage to cut you, did assault with a deadly weapon not occur?

The prosecution rests, your honor.

If the knife was in a case than rendered it useless it’s not assault with a deadly weapon. If you can’t give someone an std by sticking your dick in a water bottle you can’t attempt to give someone an std by sticking your dick in their water bottle. It’s not attempted murder to try to melt someone’s brain with telekinesis- because that’s not possible even if you believe it is and try really hard.

Maybe she got mouth herpes. Maybe HPV got in her blood stream through her mouth and she now has HPV in her vagina. I’m just saying I’m not taking these things at face value because they seem sensible - I’d like to see some kind of medical evidence that this is how it works (cause it’s not how it usually works). In a trial there would be a disease expert and that would be that,

Here’s a paper that seems to conclude that transmissible herpes virus can persist on plastic for up to two hours, though with total count dropping rapidly. But that certainly would be long enough for something like this to happen. So that seems reasonable.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2172749/?dopt