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A woman has sued a Ritz-Carlton hotel after being served a bottle of water which she claims contained one of the employees’ semen.
Referred to only as Jane and John Doe in their lawsuit, the complaint alleges they were “sexually assaulted and exploited as a direct consequence of the hotel’s own negligence”, claiming that they felt “horror and trauma” following their stay at the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay resort last November. Filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, the lawsuit says the trip was meant to be a family birthday celebration with their daughter.
The woman alleges she ordered a bottle of water from the front desk before a male employee came up to deliver five bottles to the door. Everything seemed in order, and she went to sleep at peace, having been earlier greeted at the hotel with the “kind of comfort and seduction one would expect from one of the most well-known and well-regarded luxury hotel brands in the world”.
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In the middle of the night the woman went for a sip of water - but the texture of the drink was strange. When she alleges she realised the “taste and texture may have been semen” she woke up her husband, and they contacted hotel management and later the police. “Jane Doe was mortified, terrified, embarrassed and humiliated,” alleges the complaint.
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The hotel reportedly sent the water to a lab for testing, and two months after their stay a representative from Ritz-Carlton phoned the couple to “confirm that the water contained semen”. Failing to identify or approach the staff member responsible, all the couple were offered in compensation was “a few measly Marriott reward points” which could “only be used for another anxiety-inducing stay at a Ritz-Carlton property”, attorney Terrence Jones alleged, according to Law and Crime.
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Accusing the hotel of refusing to cooperate with police in an investigation of the November 2022 episode, the legal team alleged that the hotel has not turned over the “defiled water bottle” to police to run DNA tests - so they can cross-check sex offender registers.
The employee behind the offence “remains unidentified, uncaptured and his ongoing sexual deviance unabated”, the attorney alleged. He could have assaulted “countless other guests” with his actions, they added.
Jane Doe has taken regular tests for viruses after ingesting the semen last November, and her husband claims he has had to seek therapy because of the “distress associated with knowing what occurred to her and yet at the same time not knowing what may befall her in the future if she ultimately tests positive for some kind of sexually-transmitted virus”.
John Doe alleges he has been frustrated by the feeling that he cannot protect his wife from sexual assault and feels “powerless” to stop the assault “by some deviant”. The whole saga has “negatively impacted their intimacy and the emotional depth of their relationship”, Jones alleged.
The Mirror US has contacted the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay for comment but has not yet received a response.