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- NATION, Page 31American NotesINVESTIGATIONSUncle Ed's Ugly Secret
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- To the teenage boys who visited his apartment near
- Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square, Ed Savitz was an easy client
- who paid $15 for oral sex and had a fetish for soiled underwear
- and socks. Health and law-enforcement officials fear that Savitz
- was also a walking AIDS time bomb. The 50-year-old actuary, who
- was arrested and charged with sexual abuse of children last
- month, has admitted that he has had AIDS for one year.
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- AIDS information hot lines in the area quickly received
- calls from frightened boys who had engaged in unprotected sex
- with the man they knew as "Uncle Ed." Some of the boys reported
- that they subsequently had sex with both male and female
- partners.
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- Savitz's arrest followed a six-month investigation by the
- city's sex-crime unit. By early March investigators had gathered
- enough evidence to install a wiretap and hidden videocamera in
- his home. On March 25, detectives watched as Savitz offered to
- pay two 15-year-old boys for oral sex. Police burst into the
- apartment and took Savitz into custody.
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