A visitor on the high-end Ritz-Carlton resort in Half Moon Bay claims in a lawsuit {that a} employee introduced her a water bottle containing semen, and that testing confirmed the contamination.
The Washington lady, recognized as “Jane Doe,” was celebrating her birthday final November with a four-night keep on the oceanside resort the place rooms begin at round $800 per night time, in response to the lawsuit she filed together with her husband of 25 years, recognized as “John Doe.”
“The couple supposed to have fun her big day at a particular place,” the lawsuit filed this month in Oakland U.S. District Courtroom stated.
After the couple returned to their room following a Friday night time dinner, Jane known as the entrance desk to ask for bottled water, in response to the lawsuit.
A male employee “moments later” introduced a number of bottles bearing the Ritz-Carlton brand, and Jane put them on her nightstand and went to mattress, the lawsuit stated.
She awoke thirsty within the night time, grabbed a bottle, “took a drink, and knew instantly that one thing was mistaken with the liquid she had simply swallowed,” the lawsuit claimed.
“One of many resort’s workers ejaculated his semen right into a Ritz-Carlton labeled water bottle, delivered it to Jane and John Doe’s room, and Jane Doe then drank the semen-contaminated water earlier than she realized it had been defiled by a legal deviant,” the lawsuit alleged.
Jane known as resort safety and went to the entrance desk with a safety staffer, and John requested the Ritz-Carlton to name the police and preserve the bottle safe for investigation, the lawsuit claimed.
A San Mateo County Sheriff’s Workplace deputy arrived and took a press release from Jane, the lawsuit alleged.
Jane alleged within the lawsuit that she had first thought the water was “chemically contaminated” and that when she was with resort workers and administration she “started to understand” the style was “much like semen.” At that time she “shared her suspicion together with her husband, who then requested the resort safety and administration representatives to name the police.”
John has been in touch with the deputy who got here to the resort, however the officer informed him the investigation had stalled as a result of the resort corporations “have refused to show over the defiled water bottle,” the lawsuit alleged.
“Consequently, legislation enforcement authorities have been precluded from conducting their very own evaluation of that proof, and precluded from cross-referencing the DNA in opposition to intercourse offender registries and different legislation enforcement databases,” the lawsuit claimed. “The Ritz-Carlton and Marriott Worldwide have additionally refused to reveal the identities of the resort workers on obligation that day in order that their backgrounds and legal histories will be scrutinized.”
San Mateo County Sheriff’s Workplace Sgt. Javier Acosta stated the division performed a “welfare verify” on the resort relating to a lady who claimed she drank from a bottle with water that tasted like chlorine. The girl refused medical consideration and declined a suggestion to contain a poison management middle, Acosta stated.
“An investigation was not performed on this matter,” Acosta stated.
About two months after the purported incident, a claims adjuster for the resort’s guardian firm Marriott Worldwide confirmed by telephone that “lab assessments had revealed that the fluid within the water bottle had been defiled with semen,” the lawsuit claimed.
The Ritz-Carlton and Marriott didn’t reply to requests for remark.
Jane was left livid, “ashamed of getting been sexually violated,” and terrified that she might have been uncovered to an infection, the lawsuit alleged.
The lawsuit accuses The Ritz-Carlton of sexual battery and negligence, and means that the alleged assailant seemingly victimized “numerous different visitors” in comparable style. The couple are searching for unspecified damages.
