HIV-positive man faces more charges

Police have laid new charges against an HIV-positive Winnipeg man who was already facing allegations of aggravated sexual assault, forcible confinement and uttering threats against a 17-year-old girl.

Clato Mabior, 28, has been charged with two more counts of aggravated sexual assault and two more counts of forcible confinement.

Mabior was arrested after an 18-year-old woman alleged she was assaulted on two occasions in February 2005.

Authorities say the alleged assault on the 17-year-old took place about a month earlier. Mabior is accused of having unprotected sex with the girl without telling her about his HIV status. The two had been dating for a few weeks when she went to police.

Const. Jacqueline Chaput of the Winnipeg Police Service said on Friday that more than 25 potential victims have come forward since police issued a notice about the man last Tuesday.