Janitor Urinates Into Woman's Water Bottle Multiple Times, Giving Her An STD; Arrested
KEY POINTS
- The woman initially noticed a foul smell and taste in the office's water dispenser
- She brought her own water bottles to work but eventually noticed the same smell
- Other potential victims are now getting themselves tested for STDs
A janitor gave his coworker an incurable sexually transmitted disease after urinating in her water bottle at a medical office building in Houston, Texas.
The accused custodian, Lucio Diaz, 50, is facing charges while several other potential victims are testing themselves for STDs.
"This individual is a sick man," the 54-year-old victim told ABC13 in a Wednesday report.
The woman said she noticed a foul smell and strange taste in the 5-gallon water dispenser at the doctor's Houston office in August. From then on, she decided to bring her own water bottles to work and told the police she would leave the bottles at her desk for the next day if the bottle wasn't empty.
The married mother-of-two said she eventually noticed the water in her own bottle starting to have a foul smell, KPRC2 reported.
When a coworker offered to make the woman some coffee one day in September, the victim asked the colleague to use water from her bottle because of the foul smell in the dispenser water.
The colleague then peered into the bottle and asked the victim why the water looked yellow. "I felt disgusted," she told Jason Miles from KHOU 11. "I raised it to my face, smelled it, and it smelled like urine."
She had the water tested, and the results confirmed that it was urine.
The woman shared the discovery with her colleagues, after which one of the coworkers said the same thing happened to them.
The office did not have any security cameras, so the victim set up a small camera herself to catch the culprit.
Diaz was eventually filmed uncapping the victim's water bottle, unzipping his pants and placing his genitals inside the bottle.
He "pulls out his penis and puts his penis in my bottle, basically rinses his penis in the water," the victim told ABC13.
He was captured doing the same thing twice in a matter of days.
The woman went to the police and reported the incident. Her attorney, Kim Spurlock, said a civil suit will be filed against building management and others who allegedly paid no heed to the victim's initial concerns.
Diaz was arrested and is currently being held on an immigration hold. He was charged with indecent assault and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with tainting the woman's water and infecting her with an STD.
"I learned I acquired (a sexually-transmitted disease) for which he also tested positive for," she added. "He gave me an STD I will have for the rest of my life. Nothing is going to change it. Nothing will make it better for me ... "
Diaz told cops he committed the act out of "malicious intent" and called it a "sickness." He also said he didn't know how many times he urinated in the employees' water supply and added he wasn't aware of having any diseases.
Other potential victims are getting themselves tested.
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