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" My Dad INJECTED me <strong>with</strong> HIV<br />
over Child Support Payments"<br />
Brryan Jackson<br />
Brryan Jackson?s story began when he was only<br />
11 months old <strong>and</strong> his father, who had worked in the<br />
medical field, insidiously injected him <strong>with</strong><br />
HIV-tainted blood.<br />
By: Annetta K.Daily Mail<br />
Five years later his mother unaware of his father's<br />
heinous actions, doctors diagnosed Bryyan <strong>with</strong><br />
full-blown AIDS.<br />
Jackson arrived at the Missouri Department of<br />
Corrections to tell Bryan Stewart just how<br />
drastically he had changed his son's life. And he<br />
wanted to make sure Stewart, who is serving a life<br />
sentence for the horrific crime, would be denied<br />
parole.<br />
Jackson?s father was fighting over child support<br />
payments <strong>with</strong> his son?s mother, who had left him<br />
earlier that year after he became physically <strong>and</strong><br />
emotionally abusive. Stewart had become a different<br />
person from the man Jackson's mother had fallen in<br />
love <strong>with</strong> when they were both training as medics at<br />
a Missouri military facility. When Jackson's mother<br />
found out she was pregnant in 1991, Stewart was<br />
'really excited'. But everything changed when he<br />
returned from Operation Desert Storm in Saudi<br />
Arabia, Jackson told the BBC. Stewart tried to kill his<br />
son so that he wouldn't have to keep paying child<br />
support, Jackson said. Suddenly Stewart was<br />
claiming that Jackson wasn't his child <strong>and</strong> dem<strong>and</strong>ed<br />
a DNA test. That's when the abuse began. Jackson's<br />
mother left Stewart, but the brutal fights continued.<br />
Jackson said his father would tell her: 'Your child's<br />
not going to live beyond the age of five'. Contact<br />
between Stewart <strong>and</strong> Jackson's mother ceased, but<br />
when the boy was hospitalized <strong>with</strong> an asthma<br />
attack his father found the perfect opportunity to<br />
strike. Investigators later dis<strong>cover</strong>ed Stewart had<br />
been stealing samples of infected blood from the<br />
laboratory he worked at <strong>and</strong> was storing them at his<br />
home. He had even joked <strong>with</strong> coworkers about<br />
infecting someone <strong>with</strong> one of the viruses, saying<br />
'they'd never even know what hit them'. When<br />
Stewart visited Jackson on the day he was scheduled<br />
to be discharged from the hospital, his mother was<br />
surprised. 'He wasn't a very active father, so<br />
everyone thought it was strange when he showed<br />
up,' Jackson said. Stewart asked Jackson's mother to<br />
grab him a drink from the cafeteria. When he was<br />
finally alone <strong>with</strong> his son, Stewart injected the boy<br />
<strong>with</strong> the infected blood. Jackson, who had just been<br />
nursed back to health, immediately began to<br />
deteriorate. 'My vital signs were all out of whack<br />
because it wasn't just HIV blood he had injected me<br />
<strong>with</strong>, it was incompatible <strong>with</strong> mine,' he said. Jackson<br />
was sent home after his vital signs were restored,<br />
but his health continued to worsen. Believing they<br />
had done everything possible, physicians offered no<br />
hope to my family <strong>and</strong> expected him to die <strong>with</strong>in 5<br />
months after coding twice. Due to complications<br />
from the medication from the disease Bryyan also<br />
lost 70% of his hearing. Miraculously, he defied the<br />
odds <strong>and</strong> lived on to represent a story of courage,<br />
perseverance, forgiveness, <strong>and</strong> faith. Since the age of