women has provoked a terrified mother to warn innocent victims.

The Somerset woman, who asked not to be identified, said her 20-year-old daughter was involved with the man at the same time he was having sex with at least two of her friends -- an 18-year-old and a 22-year-old mother-of-two.

The 32-year-old man, originally from St. George's and now residing in West Pembroke, is described as tall, thin, very good looking man with a moustache.

The mother said she found out from one of the other parents that the man was HIV-positive and had already served a prison term for having sex with underaged girls.

But even after the 20-year-old found out the man had the HIV virus, which leads to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), she did not want to press charges because she was in love with him.

Under sexual offence legislation, any HIV-positive person who has sex without telling their partner about the virus can face up to 20 years imprisonment.

"It's either me coming to (the media) and saying this, or me killing him -- and I've thought of many ways of killing him,'' said the mother.

"Now that he's finished with these three, he's out there -- and he likes young girls, young boys and men.

"And he has picked up young girls... from the school bus stop -- he chooses them young enough so that he can manipulate them.

"He picks up these girls and has said `they don't ask, they want it, so I give it to them'.

"This fellow is a predator... it's animals like this that have to be stopped, and there's nothing in the law books to get him off the street,'' she said.

The woman said she considered plastering bus stops, schools and restaurants with flyers to warn people about the man who she considers a menace to society -- even though she knows it would be illegal to do so.

But she said she is desperate to stop this man from endangering anyone else's life.

"If my daughter doesn't speak to me again after this, well... I have to draw the line and I cannot let any other mother go through what I'm going through.'' Although the three young women's most recent blood tests came back negative, they will have to be tested every three months for the next two years before they will know for certain whether they have contracted the disease.

The woman said: "I'm always wondering -- is my daughter going to live to be 25, will I have grandchildren, was an illness she had the flu or the virus? Two years is a long time to wait.

"It's so hard, because at 16 and 20 they think they will never die -- but nobody will realise how much pain you can be in until you're a mother, because you put all your hopes and dreams into your children.

"But I buy my daughter condoms and birth control pills -- I'm not a mother who says `not my daughter', because you basically have to walk through it with them and say `this is how you save your life these days'.

"This is just one person -- there are others out there doing the same thing -- and the laws need to be changed,'' she added.

The mother of the 18-year-old girl also spoke with The Royal Gazette and said both she and her daughter were furious about what the man had done.

After the 18-year-old had sex with the man, she heard rumours that he had HIV -- which the man flatly denied.

"They had been drinking and one thing led to another -- but it was a one-time thing with my daughter,'' said the woman.

"I just freaked out...she didn't use protection and he told her he didn't ejaculate inside her, but that doesn't matter -- she can still get the disease and it only takes one time,'' she said.

"But the anguish he's put us all through is tremendous. He needs to be whipped and beaten, strung up and left in jail to rot.'' HEALTH HTH CRIME CRM