A Manitoba woman who did not tell her sex partner she was HIV positive has been convicted of aggravated sexual assault.

Marjorie Schenkels, 27, will be sentenced at a later date. She remains free on bail.

Jurors delivered their verdict early Wednesday following nearly a full day of deliberations.

In a police interview video played for jurors, Schenkels admitted she should have disclosed her diagnosis to the now 37-year-old victim but said she was “in denial.”

“I was still pretending I didn’t have it and I continued to pretend I didn’t have it until a few weeks ago,” Schenkels told Gimli RCMP in the May 2012 video.

The victim testified he was diagnosed with HIV in December 2011, two months after he and Schenkels last had sex.

The man told court he and Schenkels were casual friends and that they had sex together three times between July and October of 2011. He said condoms were never used and Schenkels never alerted him she was HIV-positive.

The man admitted on all three occasions he and Schenkels had been drinking and he always initiated the sex.

Defence lawyer Ian Histed accused the victim of sexually assaulting Schenkels and alleged she was too intoxicated to consent to sex.

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