Woman tells rapist ‘I have HIV’ Read What Happened After

A QUICK-WITTED elderly woman tricked her would-be rapist out of attacking her by telling him she had HIV.

Helen Reynolds, 88, of Pennsylvania, US, said the suspect posed as an apartment complex employee and forced his way into her apartment after knocking on her door and asking for a drink last month, according to the Parkesburg Borough Police Department.

“I said to him, ‘Well, it’s like this,’” Reynolds told reporters.


“You might as well know the truth,” she said. “I have HIV and my husband died from it, which is a lie. When I said that, he just walked out of the bedroom. That’s the comment that saved my life.”

Reynolds said the man used duct tape to bind her once inside.

“Her wrapped it all around my face and my nose and my eyeglasses,” she said.

“He had a piece in my mouth.”

The woman said her ruse worked at just the right time, as the suspect had already taken off her pants and removed his own, she told Philly.com.

The suspect had put a box of condoms on Reynolds’ nightstand just before she told him the lie that she credits for saving her life.