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HIV-positive Ga. man on trial for allegedly raping a psychiatric patient

by FOX 31 News Team

Posted: 11.12.2010 at 4:12 PM

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Prosecutors say Wesley Randall Hatfield snuck into the room of a female patient and raped her

Photograph courtesy, Georgia Department of Corrections

GWINNETT COUNTY -- An HIV-positive Lawrenceville man is scheduled to go on trial in Gwinnett County on Monday for allegedly raping a sleeping female patient at a psychiatric hospital, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

28-year-old Wesley Randall Hatfield is charged with rape and reckless conduct in the Sept. 2, 2007 incident at SummitRidge Center for Psychiatry & Addiction Medicine in Lawrenceville. Police said he snuck into the room of a female patient and raped her while she was asleep and on sedatives. Police say Hatfield also was a patient at the hospital at the time of the alleged attack.

Read more about the alleged rape at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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