Amanda Knox: I Was Sexually Harassed In Prison, Misdiagnosed As HIV Positive

Amanda Knox said she faced sexual harassment while in an Italian prison accused of murdering her roommate, including propositions from her bisexual cellmate and a high-ranking prison official.

Knox was jailed in 2007 after being convicted of murdering roommate Meredith Kercher. Prosecutors alleged that Amanda Knox and her then-boyfriend killed Kercher in a sex game gone wrong, though the conviction was overturned in 2011.

In a new book called Waiting to be Heard, the now 25-year-old Amanda Knox said her time in prison was tense and sexual abuse rampant. She said one guard took pictures of her “intimate parts” and a female cellmate kissed her.

Knox added that Raffaele Argiro, a high-ranking prison official, was particularly blunt in his sexual harassment.

“I hear you like to have sex. How do you like to have sex?” he asked her one night in his office, the book claims.

Argiro went on, Knox claims: “What positions do you like most? Would you like to have sex with me? No? I’m too old for you?”

To add to the pain of being wrongly imprisoned, Amanda Knox was misdiagnosed as HIV positive by prison officials.

Though it’s not due out for another week, parts of the book had already been leaked, with the British tabloid The Daily Mail detailing the accusations against Argiro.

According to The Daily Mail, Knox claims the guard “accompanied me to almost all my medical visits — two times a day — and at night he called me up to the third floor in an empty office for a ‘chitchat.’ ”

Amanda Knox returned to her home in Seattle after her acquittal, spending six months writing her memoir. She reportedly received a $4 million deal from publishing house HarperCollins for the book, which will be released April 30.

The saga might not be over for Amanda Knox. An Italian court issued a new ruling to re-hear the case against Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito.