Jury finds father guilty of injecting son with HIV.

[Name removed] was found guilty by a Missouri jury of injecting his son with HIV-tainted blood to avoid paying child support. [Name removed]'s first-degree assault conviction was based entirely on circumstantial evidence. The defense attorneys attempted to shift blame to a convicted child molester and to injection drug users who had visited the boy's home. However, all of them tested negative for HIV. The jury recommended a life sentence for [name removed].