Houston janitor allegedly urinated in water bottles, lawsuit filed after 13 women tested positive for STDs

HOUSTON – Legal action was filed against several companies after Houston The keeper was arrested back in October 2022 after a worker claimed he gave her a terminal venereal disease (STD) by urinating in her water bottle.

The law firm Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner, in partnership with Mo Aziz and attorney Morgan Mills, along with Kimberly Spurlock and Samantha Spencer of Spurlock & Associates, PC, filed a lawsuit on behalf of 13 women against companies, reports say. which they say “permitted and ignored” the actions of Lucio Catarino Diaz.

Diaz, who is said to have had herpes simplex virus 1, allegedly tampered with water bottles in an office building in East Houston, leading to more than 13 women in the same building testing positive for incurable STDs.

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In October, we reported on a woman who said she noticed a strange smell and taste from a bottle of water she kept on her desk. She soon realized that it was urine.

Later, in August 2022, several other women also noticed that the water bottles in their home smelled bad and tasted like urine. This led one of the women to buy a hidden camera and put it on her desk.

The video is said to show Diaz, the night cleaner, walking up to the woman’s desk and putting down his cleaning products. Diaz then allegedly began rubbing his genitals on the inside and neck of a water bottle on the table, even turning it up to make sure he touched the water. The video then allegedly showed him putting the bottle back where he found it and continuing to clear the table.

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The next day, the woman reportedly sent a copy of the video to the building’s management company and told them she would notify the building’s other occupants. The management company asked the woman not to say anything to the tenants and promised that they would look into the incident and let them know, the report said.

However, the building allegedly failed to notify the residents, and later that evening, a hidden camera filmed Diaz again in action.

Reports say that six days after receiving the video, on October 3, 2022, the company finally notified tenants.

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Diaz confessed to the crime and was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Reports say the deadly weapon was his bodily fluids containing the virus.

The four women who worked in the office building initially filed the lawsuit after they reportedly tested positive for STDs. Since then, nine other women who worked in the building have come forward with the same allegations and sexually transmitted diseases.

The defendants named in the lawsuit include the building’s owner, the building’s management company, a renovation company, and the cleaning company that Diaz worked for.