Texas janitor who spread STDs by peeing in workers water bottles given lenient sentence

It’s only a wee prison sentence.A Texas janitor who spread sexually transmitted diseases to more than a dozen office workers by peeing in their water bottles and a cooler was let off with a light prison sentence of just six years.Lucio Catarino Diaz, 52, was given the slap on the wrist Tuesday after infecting at least 13 women with herpes and hepatitis-A at a Houston medical building in 2022, according to KHOU 11.Diaz — who was caught on camera doing the stomach-turning deed — pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and is eligible to seek parole in one more year, according to court documents cited by the station.The creepy cleaner has already served two years behind bars and will not have to register as a sex offender.Diaz was arrested in October 2022 after one of the victims noticed her water tasted sour with an odd smell and a yellowish color — and suspected that someone had messed with it.“I felt disgusted,” the victim, asked to remain anonymous, told KHOU in November 2022.“I raised it to my face, smelled it, and it smelled like urine.”She then set up a hidden camera on her desk that captured Diaz sticking his privates in her water bottle at the after she had gone home for the day.“[He] just picked it up, removed the cap, and proceeded to put his penis halfway into the bottle.

Then he tilted it up so that his penis was surrounded by the water,” she said.When cops confronted Diaz, he confessed, claiming he had  “malicious intent” and that it was a “sickness,” according to court documents.Other women who drank from a communal water cooler or personal bottles contaminated by Diaz soon tested positive for the incurable STDs, which can cause health problems ranging from blisters to liver failure.Some of the victims, who worked at Westmont medical building, have since filed a lawsuit against Diaz and the custodial company that employed him.It seeks over $1 million in monetary relief....