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(Exclusive) Woman Responsible For Putting OKC Man Behind Bars For Allegedly Spreading HIV Speaks Out & Says He Told Her “It’s Not A Big Deal” When She Shared Her Diagnosis

<p>In October&comma; Earnest Lacour&comma; 30&comma; of Oklahoma City&comma; was accused of knowingly spreading HIV&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;oklahoma-city-man-accused-of-knowingly-spreading-hiv&sol;">He has been booked in the Oklahoma County Jail<&sol;a> and charged with three felony counts of spreading infectious diseases&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In this exclusive interview&comma; we speak with a woman who alleges Lacour infected her and&comma; though undetectable&comma; is now HIV positive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Meeting Earnest Lacour<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Speaking anonymously to <em>The Shade Room<&sol;em>&comma; the Oklahoma City woman says she met <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;okcfox&period;com&sol;news&sol;local&sol;oklahoma-city-man-accused-of-knowingly-spreading-hiv-earnest-lacour-arrest-county-jail-human-immunodeficiency-virus-sexually-transmitted-disease-std-bond-crime-felony">Lacour<&sol;a> through a group of friends in 2020&period; Shortly after&comma; he was hospitalized in August of 2020 and was released in October for an unknown reason&comma; but it was later determined to be related to his HIV diagnosis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>We started hanging out&comma; and in the midst&comma; he was hospitalized and bedridden—couldn&&num;8217&semi;t move his legs&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>As you may know&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s a HIPAA &lpar; Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996&rpar; violation for medical professionals to give information about a patient&&num;8217&semi;s medical history unless the person permits them to do so&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lacour told the 30-year-old he was hospitalized because of a &&num;8220&semi;staph infection&period;&&num;8221&semi; When she attempted to ask more questions&comma; once he needed emergency back surgery&comma; he would respond&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>Why you asking so many questions&quest;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The  woman stated she &&num;8220&semi;took care of him&&num;8221&semi; while he was in the hospital&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s even stated that sometimes he said he couldn&&num;8217&semi;t walk and had to use a walker for assistance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The two would date for over two years&comma; and he was the only man she had sexual relations with during that time&comma; but the woman alleges that wasn&&num;8217&semi;t the case on his end&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Discovering She Was HIV Positive<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>The woman became sick and later discovered she was HIV positive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Initially thinking it was a &&num;8220&semi;stomach ulcer&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she was sick &&num;8220&semi;for about two years&&num;8221&semi; before her diagnosis in March of 2022&period; She &&num;8220&semi;lost so much weight&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;was throwing up for days at a time&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Upon hearing the news&comma; she FaceTimed Lacour&comma; crying about her diagnosis&comma; and he told her that &&num;8220&semi;it&&num;8217&semi;s OK&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;it&&num;8217&semi;s not a big deal&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She also claims he asked her if she had AIDS or HIV&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Finding Out His HIV Status<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>It wasn&&num;8217&semi;t until they went to the doctor together that she discovered he was HIV positive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>I convinced him to come to the doctor with me&period; He was supposed to get his blood drawn at the doctor&&num;8217&semi;s office&comma; but he started treatment the same day I started treatment&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>During the hospital visit&comma; she says she could overhear his conversation with the doctor and later confronted the Oklahoma City man accused of knowingly infecting women with HIV&period; But he still denied it and insisted he did not have the disease&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It wasn&&num;8217&semi;t until a week&comma; after their doctor visit&comma; that he admitted to his HIV diagnosis&period; Though he received the news in 2019&comma; it is believed he didn&&num;8217&semi;t start treatment until 2022&&num;8211&semi;the same day he went to the doctor with the woman&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Contacting Authorities<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>She  eventually went to authorities&comma; who accessed his medical records and confirmed the diagnosis in 2019&period; She also took to her personal Facebook page to &&num;8220&semi;warn&&num;8221&semi; others about what he was doing&period; Subsequently&comma; the other two women&&num;8211&semi;who he is being charged with infecting&&num;8211&semi;contacted her for the investigator&&num;8217&semi;s information to report their incidents&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Her Life Currently<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Currently&comma; the woman responsible for Lacour being behind bars is still coming to terms with her diagnosis but is living a fulfilled life and taking her medication&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>I caught the disease early&comma; and I&&num;8217&semi;m undetectable&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t have AIDS&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m not dying&comma; and I have a boyfriend&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Lacour is still being held on a &dollar;500&comma;000 bond and has &&num;8220&semi;never apologized&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"101259" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;exclusive-woman-responsible-for-putting-okc-man-behind-bars-for-allegedly-spreading-speaks-out-says-he-told-her-its-not-a-big-deal-when-she-shared-her-diagnosis&sol;" data-secure&equals;"6042cd2d6f"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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