Office worker on STD contracted from water bottle: 'Nothing is going to change it'

Authorities allege that a Houston janitor infected a female office worker with a sexually transmitted disease (STD) by tainting her water bottle, according to reports from Houston-based media outlets.

Houston NBC affiliate KPRC reported that 50-year-old Lucio Catarino Diaz allegedly urinated into the bottle and is believed to carry more than one STD. 

Diaz faces a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, KPRC reported.

Per the Houston Police Department (HPD), the station reported, the suspect committed the act at an east Houston doctor’s office where the woman worked for 20 years.

She explained in court papers that she was prompted to bring her own bottle after she discovered the facility’s 5-gallon water dispenser had a funny taste and smell, KPRC reported.

The unidentified woman claimed that the bottles she would fill had the same off-putting taste and smell – and since the office lacked security cameras – she bought one of her own she hooked up to her computer, the station reported.

Footage from the victim’s camera purportedly showed Diaz relieving himself into the bottle, which he did over a period of several days, investigators said, KPRC reported.

The custodian revealed to police he had a sickness but couldn’t recall the number of times he urinated in the workers’ drinking supply.

According to KPRC, court documents said Diaz tested for two STDs, including an incurable one, while the woman herself contracted an incurable illness.

The 54-year-old victim told Houston ABC affiliate KTRK that the disease will remain with her for the rest of her life, condemning Diaz “as a sick man.”

“Nothing is going to change it,” she said, KTRK reported. “Nothing will make it better for me. In fact, I feel like, for the rest of my life, I will have to be careful."

The station reported that the suspect, a Mexican national, is in U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) custody as of Tuesday.