Janitor urinated in employee water bottles leading to 13 women testing positive for STD

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Multiple companies in Texas are facing a lawsuit for employing a janitor accused of urinating into employee water bottles and thereby infecting more than a dozen victims with sexually transmitted diseases.

The lawsuit, stemming from the October arrest of janitor Lucio Catarino Diaz, was filed on behalf of 13 women who say the janitor urinated in their water bottles on the job in an East Houston office building which resulted in positive tests for the herpes simplex 1 virus.

Lucio Catarino Diaz, 50, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

The lawsuit says that several women noticed their water bottles "smelling and tasting foul" in August 2022, which prompted a woman to set up a hidden camera that captured Diaz approaching her desk, setting his supplies down, and "rub his penis on the interior and mouth of a water bottle."

Diaz has admitted to the crimes and was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The janitor’s bodily fluids containing the incurable STD were considered a weapon in the charges.