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Pin Prick Attack

Acts Causing or Intending Harm to the Person

A pin prick attack is an assault on another person using a needle or syringe that the attacker claims or implies is tainted with the blood of someone carrying a blood-borne disease such as HIV. Despite numerous reported cases of people being attacked with needles or syringes, the idea that people infected with AIDS have deliberately tried to infect others this way is generally regarded as an urban legend, and real cases of HIV transmission by this method have typically involved blood taken from an infected victim rather than blood supplied by an infected attacker. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Notable Example
Richard J. Schmidt, a physician, was convicted of attempted murder in 1998 for injecting a former lover with HIV and Hepatitis C tainted blood 1
Classification
Offense Grade
Minor or Summary Offense 1
Connections

Has Offense Grade

Entity-backed identity for the offense-grade enum value this offense already carries, resolved to a crime concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The offense-grade fact itself stays on the offense unchanged.

Sources
1. Wikipedia: Pin prick attack
  • Lead section
    A pin prick attack is an assault on another person with a needle or syringe tainted with the blood of somebody carrying a blood-borne disease, such as HIV.
  • Documented examples section, Schmidt case sentence
    Richard J. Schmidt, a physician in Lafayette, Louisiana, was convicted of attempted murder after injecting a former lover, Janice Trahan, with HIV and Hepatitis C-tainted blood
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