According to court documents, Earnest Lacour of Oklahoma City now faces seven counts of knowingly spreading HIV to multiple people after being arrested in October. Lacour, 30, was charged in October 2022 with three felony counts of spreading the infectious disease. According to court documents, he is now facing seven felony counts.
Lacour is also accused of spreading HIV over a three-year period, from September 1, 2019 to October 25, 2022, according to court documents.
Each count is for each day he is accused of “ENGAGING IN CONDUCT REASONABLY LIKELY TO TRANSFER THE HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS(HIV).”
- 03/01/2021
- 09/01/2019
- 05/18/2020
- 10/25/2022
- 06/04/2022
- 06/04/2022
- 07/01/2022
We previously reported that a woman first took to social media and accused Earnest Lacour of knowingly spreading the disease. As a result, more women then came forward with the same claim.
The woman who went to authorities after discovering she was HIV positive accuses Lacour of infecting her with the disease. She initially thought she was sick because of a “stomach ulcer.” The mother also stated she was ill “for about two years” before her diagnosis in March 2022. She “lost so much weight” and “was throwing up for days at a time.”
Upon hearing the news, she FaceTimed Lacour, crying about her diagnosis, and claims Lacour told her that “it’s OK” and “it’s not a big deal.”
