Call for sexual assault law change after Pat Maahs’ co-worker gets off from court for getting off in coffee
CONTENT WARNING: You won’t believe what this woman found in her coffee at work. It will change how you look at your cuppa forever.
HOW’S this for the co-worker from hell ...
A woman in Minnesota wants her co-worker charged with a sex crime after she caught him doing something so very, very wrong to her coffee.
But she’ll have to get the law changed first.
Pat Maahs, who worked in a hardware store for 26 years, told media she caught a co-worker standing near her desk, close to her coffee with a strange look on his face last August, fox8.com reported.
“He looked over his shoulder, and the deer-in-the-headlights look and promptly left the room,” she said.
“And when he left the room, I looked down at the desk and here was a puddle on the desk.”
Then it hit her.
Her co-worker had ejaculated in her coffee.
Even worse — he may have been doing it for six months. She said she thought it had been tasting funny.
“Generally, I make a cup and take it in a travel cup on my way to work. I finish that cup up about 10:30am, maybe have one more cup during the day,” she told CBS Minnesota.
“It is a sexual assault. I was sexually assaulted.
“It was something very serious that had happened to me and I thought there’s no repercussion for him,” she said.
The co-worker confessed to the crime and was subsequently charged on two counts of criminal sexual conduct.
But a judge dismissed the charges, because “no current sex law covered this type of incident.” Crime Feed reported.
Instead, the judge suggested Maahs lobby to have the law changed.
So she is.
Her representative Debra Hilstrom has kicked off the push to have the law changed in the US.
“This just says if you put your bodily fluids in someone else’s food, that counts for criminal sexual conduct as well,” Hilstrom said.
If the proposed bill passes, Maah’s dirty co-worker would have committed a felony and be forced to register as a sex offender.
“This isn’t just protecting me because someone was attracted to me. It’s protecting everyone in society in general,” Maahs said.
Since being dismissed on the original charges, the co-worker was charged with indecent exposure.
Cold comfort for Maahs, who will undergo testing for sexually transmitted diseases for the next year. She is also seeing a psychologist.