An HIV-positive bouncer accused of having unprotected sex with a string of lovers faces more charges today, two days after the death of his ex-wife.
By Ian RobertsonFive more women contacted police after learning of last month's arrest of Ian Williams, 43, on a complaint from the eldest daughter of Mary Maxenita Williams, who died Sunday. Her death could also yield more charges, police said.
Williams is already charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm and aggravated assault endangering life.
Det. Dave Needham of the Toronto Police sex crimes unit said additional charges won't be disclosed until Williams is brought from Maplehurst Detention Centre and arraigned in a Finch Ave. courtroom.
OTHER SEX PARTNERS
An alert to other potential sex partners of Williams, a seemingly healthy womanizer, was issued in early April.
"I'm not asking any women he's had contact with to come forward if they don't want to, but for God's sake, see a doctor and be checked," Needham said. "If anyone doesn't know they're infected with any sexually transmitted disease, more people could be exposed."
Williams was diagnosed with HIV in 1997, police said.
Investigators learned of the potential health threat from Michelle Kelly after her mom's arms grew so weak they were no longer strong enough to hold her grandchildren.
"He's ruined several women's lives," Kelly alleged in an interview, speaking publicly about her mom for the first time.
Paralyzed, blind, barely able to speak, but still recognizing her five children's voices 11 years after being diagnosed, Williams, 54, died hours before a regular family visit.
"Everyone was on their way to see her ... so she died alone," Yvette Ferguson said, dabbing at tears after she and sisters Kelly and Marie Chapman visited the morgue yesterday.
Once a vibrant, fun-loving mom and grandmother who loved going to clubs, dancing to Calypso and Salsa music and attending Caribana festivities every year, their mom became ill and learned she was infected with HIV after undergoing medical tests.
When Williams confronted her new husband, who she met through a cousin, he denied he had it, Kelly, 31, said.
The personal support worker tried to warn other women he was seen with.
"He'd tell them she was crazy and our mom was lying," Ferguson alleged. "He never apologized to this day ... he has no morals.
"He was cheating on her the whole time."
WALKED OUT
Williams walked out on his new wife after he got his Canadian citizenship papers eight months after they married, Ferguson alleged.
The family, including sons Mitchener, 34, and Anthony, 35, are also angry about the apparent good health of their former stepfather.
"He works out and doesn't look like he has it," Chapman said.
The sisters said telling their grandmother Beulah, now 75, nearly broke their mom's heart. The senior has visited Toronto regularly, heading back to Trinidad after the expiry of each six-month visitor's pass, then returning to help her middle child.
