By Alexandra Seltzer
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Since a Greenacres police
officer’s arrest Friday on two counts of criminal transmission of HIV, three
additional women have come forward and said they may also be victims.
Palm Beach County Sheriff’s
spokesman Eric Davis said detectives have begun investigating the three cases.
He declined to give further information.
Greenacres police officer
Ervans Saintclair, who has since been placed on administrative leave without
pay, was released from the Palm Beach County Jail on Friday after posting a
$30,000 bond.
Sheriff’s detectives said they
believe there are additional victims and recommended they call in with
information.
Saintclair found out he was
HIV-positive when he had his pre-employment physical exam for the police
department in 2007, an arrest report released Friday said. Deputies started
investigating Saintclair in 2013 after a woman said the police officer told her
he was HIV-positive only after they had had sex several times in 2007.
The woman’s case couldn’t be
prosecuted because the statute of limitations ran out, but deputies say the
woman helped them find other women with whom Saintclair had more recently been
involved, the report said.
Deputies spoke with two other
women and determined that Saintclair had sex with them without telling them he
was HIV-positive.
Both told deputies they
wouldn’t have had sex with the police officer had they known his HIV status.
