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HIV-positive player arrested, suspended.(RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES)

The Sporting News

| December 09, 2005 | LaRose, Stephen | COPYRIGHT 2005 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

While Canadian Football League players head to training camps next spring, Trevis Smith will go to a Surrey, British Columbia, courtroom to face a charge of aggravated sexual assault.

Smith, 29, a linebacker with the Saskatchewan Roughriders who played in college at Alabama, is the first person--as far as the public knows--to play pro football while HIVp positive.

When the seven-year veteran was arrested in Regina, Saskatchewan, in October, B.C. Royal Canadian Mounted Police issued an unusual public warning: Anyone who had had sex with Smith should get tested for HIV and call the police. On November 17 Regina police arrested Smith on a second count of aggravated sexual assault, this time involving a Regina woman.

Canadian criminal law defines aggravated sexual assault as an incident in which such an act causes serious injury. The legal ...

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