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The News Room [News Release] Sheriff Contact: John Roach: 313-213-5162 HIV-positive man charge for having sex with 14-year old Inkster boy
 Thirty-seven-year-old Detroit resident, Steven Foster, was charged this week in Inkster district court with two counts of third-degree criminal sexual contact for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old boy he met online. He also was charged with one count of failing to disclose the boy that he has the Human Immune Deficiency (HIV) virus, which causes AIDS.
Wayne County sheriff’s deputies arrested Foster last week after receiving a tip from the family of a young Inkster boy, who told investigators that he had met Foster online and was lured into having unprotected sex with him. A sheriff’s deputy then went online posing as a fictitious 14-year-old boy and was promptly propositioned for sex by Foster, who was later arrested at a location in Detroit. After his arrest Foster told sheriff’s investigators that he was HIV-positive, although his victim insists that Foster never told him that. Foster now faces up to 15 years in prison for the CSC charges and another four years for failing to disclose that he has HIV, said Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans. “This takes predatory behavior to a new level,” Evans said. “To seduce a child for the purposes of having sex with them is bad enough. But to intentionally put them at risk of contracting a fatal disease is unconscionable. This is just another reason that parents need to keep a close eye on what their kids are doing online.” Foster also has been charged with illegal use of the Internet and child sexually abusive behavior. If convicted of these charges, he faces up to 20 years in prison. Foster is being held on a $500,000 cash bond. |
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