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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A Houston law firm has filed a civil lawsuit against multiple people after 13 women say they contracted incurable sexually-transmitted diseases from a janitor accused of urinating in employee water bottles.
Lucio Diaz is charged with indecent assault and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The deadly weapon being his bodily fluids containing Herpes Simplex 1 Virus, according to law firm Abraham Watkins.
Diaz was granted a $75,000 bond after his October 2022 arrest, court records show.
The lawsuit was initially filed on behalf of four women who worked in an east Houston office building where Diaz was a janitor. The women reportedly tested positive for incurable sexually transmitted diseases after coming in contact with water bottles infected by Diaz.
After the lawsuit was filed, nine other women who worked in the same building came forward with the same allegations and diagnoses, the law firm said.