An HIV-positive New Zealand man pricked¹ his sleeping wife with a needle tainted² with his blood, infecting her with the virus, court papers have revealed.

法庭文件显示，一位HIV阳性的新西兰男子使用被他的血液污染的针穿刺熟睡中的妻子，并使其受感染。

It is believed the man wanted to give her the virus, which leads to Aids, so she would have sex with him again, the New Zealand Sunday Star-Times reported.

According to the documents, the man twice pricked刺，穿 his wife with a sewing needle tainted感染的，污染的 with his blood.

The man has admitted infecting his wife and faces up to 14 years in jail.

The 35-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been remanded送还，还押 in custody³被拘留中 and will be sentenced at Auckland High Court early next year.

According to the court documents obtained by the newspaper, the husband discovered he was HIV-positive during health checks when the family arrived in New Zealand in 2004.

His wife and children were not infected.

'Sting-like mark'

The wife said she wanted to stay with her husband for the sake of their children but refused to have sex with him for fear of contracting the disease.

But she said that in May last year she found "a sting-like mark" on her left thigh⁴大腿 and two days later awoke to意识，察觉 a stinging刺人的 feeling in her leg.

She said she also saw her husband handling a syringe注射器 full of his blood.

Four months later during a routine check-up she was told she was HIV-positive.

She said she confronted面对，遭遇 her husband who admitted pricking⁵ her with an infected needle.

"All he said [was] he was sorry. He said, 'I used needles on you because I wanted you to be the same as me so that you can live with me and you won't leave me'," she said in a statement.

The husband was charged in October last year.