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HIV-positive woman pleads to assault

WARREN — A Pulaski, Pa., woman accused of not letting sex partners know about her HIV-positive status pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of felonious assault.

Lisa A. Mutter, 42, appeared before Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge W. Wyatt McKay, who ordered the defendant to undergo an investigation by the Adult Probation Department before sentencing.

Mutter faces a possible two- to eight-year prison sentence.

Mutter was indicted in July on a felonious assault charge connected to an incident in Hubbard. Records show the complaint was investigated after Nov. 6, 2015, by Hubbard detective Christopher Moffitt.

Court records also show that on Jan. 8, Mutter pleaded guilty in Columbiana County court in a similar case. Mutter, who formerly lived in Salem, was sentenced March 22 to three years in prison by Columbiana County Common Pleas Judge Scott Washam. Earlier this year, Columbiana County’s health commissioner told the Columbiana County Sheriff’s Office that Mutter was diagnosed with HIV in 2004, according to reports. When asked by Washam during a recent hearing if she was taking any medications, Mutter said she is using the medication both for her HIV, which causes AIDS and bipolar disorder. She also had been seeing a counselor in New Castle, records show.

Starting in May and continuing through July 2014, Mutter engaged in sexual conduct with about nine men, according to Columbiana County court documents. She was accused of not disclosng her condition to any of them.

Information for this report came from the Lisbon Morning Journal.

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