Defendant Pleads Guilty In Case Involving Spread Of HIV
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Michael Anderson-manderson@timesuniononline.com
A Silver Lake man pleaded guilty to exposing multiple women to HIV.
Travis Spoor, 37, changed his plea in Kosciusko Superior Court I on Thursday.
Spoor was facing six counts of malicious mischief in three cases on allegations he failed to disclose his disease to his sexual partners.
Under the plea agreement, Spoor will plead guilty to three counts and the other three counts will be dropped. The maximum time Spoor can spend behind bars is three years, under the agreement.
Judge David Cates set sentencing for July 3.
The most recent charge resulted from an incident in March when a woman met and slept with Spoor, who was using a fake a name on Match.com.
Spoor allegedly posed as a man named Ray Hilderman on Match.com and met with the victim during the first week of March. After he left his wallet behind, the victim discovered Spoor had lied about his name, court documents show.
The plea covers all of Spoor’s Kosciusko County charges, which date to February 2016
Spoor still faces similar charges in three other counties.
He is due in court in Marshall County on June 22.
According to Spoor’s lawyer David Kolbe, they are working toward a resolution in that case.
Spoor is scheduled for two jury trials: Aug. 22 in Allen County on four counts of malicious mischief and July 25 in?Wabash County.
The arrests began in 2016, when the first victim met with an Indiana State Police trooper. The victim said she had unprotected sex with him four times and her friend had told her Spoor was sick. She said Spoor was taking “a lot of pills,” according to court records. Spoor sent text messages denying he was HIV-positive.
The other women who came forward told similar stories. They met Spoor online, he told them a story about how he lost his arm, and slept with them without disclosing his disease.
