A 26-year-old Florida man has been charged with failing to tell three women he was HIV positive before they had sex, authorities said.

Gentry burns, of Ormond beach, was charged Thursday with violating Florida’s HIV disclosure law. He was in jail on unrelated assault charges.

? Detectives confirmed through a subpoena of medical records that burns was diagnosed HIV positive in January 2014.? said Andrew Gant, Volusia County Sheriff’s spokesman?s Control.

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Mugshot for gentry burns, 26.

(Volusia County Sheriff’s office )

? Detectives also identified three victims who cooperated with the investigation and confirmed they met and engaged in sexual activity with burns without knowing he was HIV positive?? Gant said.

Detectives launched an investigation after the woman said she was diagnosed with HIV after meeting burns in 2013, Gant said.

? Did the victim communicate with other women who met burns in an attempt to warn them? he said. ? She also provided detectives with the names of other women she believed burns may have infected.?

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Under Florida law, it is illegal for anyone who knows they have any of several sexually transmitted diseases to have sex with another person without informing them of their status.

About 20 States have similar laws. Health experts and patient advocates say that instead of curbing behaviors that can transmit the virus, such laws perpetuate stigma about the disease that can prevent people from getting diagnosed or treated.

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A lawyer for burns from the public defender’s office did not respond to an email request from the Associated Press.

The associated Press contributed to this report.