Australian Health Scandal: Police seek lovers of circus acrobat alleged to have knowingly spread HIV

Godfrey Zaburoni

DISEASE THREAT: Police and Queensland Health
are asking women who had sex with this man,
Godfrey Zaburoni, to come forward for testing.

A MAN who allegedly had sex with a woman without telling her he was HIV positive willl appear in a Queensland court tomorrow.

Queensland Health chief health officer Jeannette Young has asked other women who had sex with the man to come forward for testing.

The 31-year-old Zimbabwean-born Australian citizen, Godfrey Zaburoni, appeared in a Sydney court on Tuesday for an extradition hearing and is due to appear in the Southport Magistrates Court on Wednesday, Queensland Police Acting Deputy Commissioner Col McCallum told reporters in Brisbane.

He has been charged with acts intended to cause grievous bodily harm or transmit a serious disease .

Mr Zaburoni has worked as an acrobat in a circus and arrived in Australia from Zimbabwe in 1997.

Ms Young said the man allegedly had had unprotected sex with at least 12 women across the country.

It is believed he had sex with seven women in Queensland and others in NSW and Victoria, but it is possible there were others in other states.

Anyone within Queensland with information which could assist police in this matter is urged to contact the Queensland Health contact line. Outside Queensland, people with information can call CrimeStoppers on
1800 333 000.