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HIV-Positive Man Arrested In Luring Investigation

Posted By: Katie Franzios · 8/10/2012 12:29:00 PM

An HIV-positive man from Newcastle has been arrested after it's believed he tried to meet a minor online for a sexual encounter.

But the minor is question was actually a police investigator posing as a 15-year-old male.

42-year-old Kris Allen Gowdy is alleged to have used the profile name "collegetoy2033" on social media sites.  Investigators met the suspect at a prearranged location. After he was taken into custody, police found out he is a youth pastor with the Free Methodist Church in Courtice.

He has been charged with Luring a Child Via Computer and Attempted Aggravated Sexual Assault.

Officers believe there could be more victims.

Gowdy is believed to contracted the virus around 1990 and officers are concerned for people's safety.

He has travelled extensively over the last decade including to places like Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and Rochester, New York.

Both Durham Regional Police and the OPP Internet Child Exploitation unit are involved in the investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact Det. Randy Norton of the Major Crime Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Unit – Internet Child Exploitation Unit at 1-888-579-1520 ext. 5363 or Crime Stoppers.

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  1. Richard Collins posted on 08/10/2012 01:24 PM
    We need to isolate carriers of HIV from the general population to curb the spread of the disease. Even if that means setting up walled communities in isolated parts of the country where they can live, work, and enjoy the same basic freedoms as other Canadians, but never ever leave.
    1. P. Ray posted on 08/10/2012 02:20 PM
      @Richard Collins How about moving to Mars instead?
    2. Richard Collins posted on 08/10/2012 02:29 PM
      @P. Ray Being flippant about it won't make the logic behind the idea any less sound. It's a simple quarantine procedure to contain a deadly disease.
    3. LuminolBlue posted on 08/10/2012 07:24 PM
      @Richard Collins "...enjoy the same basic freedoms as other Canadians...", yes and one of those freedoms is to live anywhere in the country. By your logic, why not just throw HIV+ individuals in prison simply for having the disease, that way they can't go anywhere but they can make licence plates for 10c/hr.
    4. Roger I posted on 08/10/2012 11:24 PM
      @Richard Collins & you should be locked in a mental hospital.
    5. Richard Collins posted on 08/11/2012 01:29 PM
      @LuminolBlue Throwing them in prison makes no sense; first of all, having HIV is not a crime, and secondly they could infect non-HIV inmates and spread the disease. The point is to isolate the disease from non-infected Canadians, while still maintaining a quality of life for those who are infected.

      You seem to think I was talking about some manner of complex, a grim government building with people in cells. My idea was of a series of ordinary small towns, each enclosed by a guarded wall. By isolating the virus in this way, we can take a large step towards eliminating it in the rest of the country.

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