Former Mets baseball player Roberto Alomar has been slapped upside the head with a lawsuit alleging he engaged in sexual activity while afflicted with AIDS. Alomar’s ex-girlfriend, Ilya Dall, is behind the lawsuit.
Dall, 31, says she lived with Alomar for three years, watching his health worsen until he finally got tested in 2006 after suffering from severe cough, fatigue and shingles. Dall says he knew of his condition since February 6, 2006 but had been advised by doctors to get an HIV test since 2004 due to his rapidly declining health. The suit claims that he was diagnosed with the blood disorder thrombocytopenia purpura in 2005, an affliction sometimes linked to HIV. He refused to get tested, saying he had already done so in the past and was free of AIDS.
Then, in April of 2005, Dall says that Alomar confided that he had erectile dysfunction and had been “raped by two Mexican men” after a game when he was 17. She says that he then developed a persistent cough and fatigue. Later, he developed a yeast infection (?!) and was again advised to get tested. Again, he refused.
Dall is now demanding $15 million in punitive damages, alleging that Alomar “jeopardized the health, well-being and life of the plaintiff, which caused her to have a fear of contracting AIDS, often referred to as AIDS phobia.”
See, here’s the thing: If you suspect, to any degree, that your sexual partner has HIV - or any STD - and he or she refuses to get tested, you dump that person or at least stop engaging in sexual activity until they get tested. You do not, however, wait it out with fingers crossed and idly sit by as that person develops sores, fatigue, a blood disorder and a g-d yeast. Infection.
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