'I can't transmit it': Police officer with HIV hid illness from woman he impregnated, then tried to claim she and the baby 'can't get it': Police

A Florida constabulary serviceman is charged with not disclosing his HIV presumption to a pistillate helium got pregnant, which is simply a felony. The bull tried to archer the pistillate "I can't transmit it" and "you and the babe can't get it," according to tribunal documents.

"I'm sick," Pensacola police officer Pierce Cotton told the pregnant woman, according to his apprehension report. Another parent that helium had a kid with successful a erstwhile narration had reached retired to the pistillate and told her she was "concerned" for her health, according to the report.

"It's nether control, and that's been proven," Cotton allegedly texted her. "You can't declaration it."

The apprehension study says the pistillate replied, "Sick with what?"

"I'll preface it with this then: I can't transmit it," Cotton allegedly said. "You don't person it, since you've already been tested for it. … I made definite I was harmless truthful arsenic to support you from getting it. You and the babe can't get it from me."

The apprehension study says Cotton and the woman, who is an worker with the Pensacola Police Department, began dating successful October 2025. He was allegedly inactive surviving with the different parent astatine the time, but claimed they weren't successful a narration and that helium was lone staying with her for the clip being.

The different parent contacted the pistillate aft uncovering retired she was large and said she recovered medicine successful Cotton's idiosyncratic belongings that was alarming, according to the apprehension report.

"The pistillate told her that she was acrophobic for [the victim] and the unborn child's wellness and that should get tested," the study says. "She initially would not archer wherefore the pistillate was acrophobic for her health."

The unfortunate allegedly came guardant and contacted constabulary aft speaking to Cotton, which led investigators to get Cotton's aesculapian records and observe a anterior laboratory report.

"The laboratory study indicated that it was a trial for [HIV] and a serum specimen was collected from a vein connected July 11, 2025," the study explains. "The results day is July 15, 2025. The laboratory indicated that it was a affirmative result."

The Pensacola Police Department charged Cotton and placed him connected administrative leave, with an interior affairs probe underway.

Cotton was released connected a $10,000 enslaved and is scheduled to beryllium arraigned successful April.