A Toronto man who was infected with the HIV virus by his stripper ex-wife is pleading for other men who may have had sex with her to get tested for the disease. "I know there were other men she slept with," Percy Whiteman claimed yesterday of his ex, Suwalee Iamkhong, who's fighting deportation from Canada. "I am lucky that I was able to find out early."
Iamkhong, 39, arrived in Canada from Thailand in 1995 and danced at Toronto's Zanzibar Tavern for most of her career, which lasted until 2004.
NO EVIDENCE
While Whiteman alleges his former wife had sex with other men, no evidence has yet been presented publicly.
She was sentenced in August 2007 to three years in jail after being convicted of criminal negligence causing bodily harm for infecting Whiteman with HIV. Whiteman, who married Iamkhong in 1997, told court that he didn't know she had AIDS until the woman fell ill in 2004.
The Canadian government wants to deport Iamkhong, who is being detained in an immigration holding facility. A final deportation date has not been set.
Whiteman sponsored Iamkhong and according to immigration laws, is financially responsible for her until 2011.
"I don't think justice was fully served," he said. "She should have been deported a long time ago for what she's done to others."
Whiteman has since founded Positive Survivors Living with HIV AIDS to help men in similar situations.
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