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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

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