Word: chautauqua
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medical detective work that enabled Chautauqua County health officials to identify Williams as a sexual predator. In August, health commissioner Robert Berke found he had a sixth case in five months of a young girl who tested positive for HIV. The county had recorded only 50 AIDS cases since the disease began to spread in the 1980s. Although Williams used 18 aliases, including names such as Face and JoJo, caseworkers went back to the six women and eventually figured out that they'd all had sex with the same man. Because of confidentiality laws in New York designed to protect...
...Chautauqua health officials have identified 110 people in the area who had sex with Williams or with partners of his. Nine of his partners, girls and young women ranging in age from 13 to 22, are known to be infected with HIV. Moreover, Williams, who is in prison on a drug conviction in New York City, gave health officials the names of 19 of the 50 to 75 city women he claims to have slept with during the past 14 months...
While parts of Chautauqua are serene, Jamestown is a small, beaten-down city where for years drugs and homelessness have made their mark. Authorities say Williams moved to the community in 1995 to see family and allegedly to sell narcotics. A self-proclaimed member of the Bloods street gang and widely disliked by his Brooklyn neighbors, Williams has eight arrests and three convictions behind him. In Jamestown he seems to have used his urban of-the-street credibility to impress the disaffected girls he picked up in local parks. Chautauqua investigators believe in some cases Williams may have bartered drugs...
That so many did not say no is what horrifies parents and health educators in Chautauqua, who say safe-sex information is widely distributed in the area. As clinics were flooded with young people seeking HIV tests in recent days and an AIDS-education seminar drew hundreds, many, like Sue Genco, a Jamestown mother of three, came to see the Williams case as "our wake-up call...
...Williams' future, Chautauqua prosecutors plan to charge him with first-degree assault in the cases of those who contracted HIV from him. But that may do little to heal the trauma he has inflicted on circles of Jamestown youth. The hope offered by new AIDS treatments still hasn't entered their thinking. "There's nothing to do now," says Danielle Rapp, 18, "but watch your friends...