Mathew Louis Resse
Matthew Louis Reese met the girl, who is now 17 on a chat line in December 2012 and had lied to the girl’s parents that he was 18 years old.
The two dated for seven months between 2012 and 2013 and after they met at a Dallas movie theater, Reese persuaded her to have sex with him in his car.
When she told him she was a virgin and had never had a boyfriend, he said it was probably because she’d never had sex. He said if she didn’t have sex ‘it would make a man want to cheat’.
‘He told me he could see himself being with me,’ she told the court. ‘He was saying all the right things. He was telling me what I wanted to hear.’
According to Dallas Mornining news, they had sex in the car and on other occasions during their seven-month relationship, never using a condom, she testified.
Reese eventually found out she had been infected with HIV after she fell ill, lapsing into a coma for two weeks and spending 40 days in hospital and her kidneys failed, and she was later diagnosed.
Meanwhile Reese during a phone call with the 17-year-old girl when she was in the hospital, he said he had ‘symptoms’ of HIV, but insisted he was ‘clean’.
Reese was however arrested after her family called the police following her mother’s discovery that he lied about his age and his criminal records that he had been convicted for drugs, family violence assault, evading arrest and resisting arrest.
When they confronted him about his real identity, he did not deny it, she told the court. The girl must now take medication every day to keep her viral load low.
The victim who said that she would not have become involved with him if she had known he had HIV said: ‘There was a point…where I wished death on him,’ she said. ‘I didn’t deserve this. I don’t like him at all.’
Reese pleaded to aggravated sexual assault of a child with a deadly weapon, aggravated sexual assault with serious bodily injury, and sexual assault of a child.
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