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Man who put semen in co-worker's bottle must pay $27,000
Californian was earlier sentenced to 180 days in jail, ordered to register as a sex offender
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A Fullerton man who was convicted of twice secretly depositing his semen in a co-worker's water bottle was ordered to pay more than $27,000 in restitution Monday.
Superior Court Judge Walter Schwarm, who earlier sentenced Michael Kevin Lallana, 32, to 180 days in jail for two misdemeanor battery convictions, said Lallana needs to reimburse his victim for therapy and loss of wages after she left her employment following the incidents.
The judge also told Lallana he must repay his former co-worker more than $300 for her out-of-pocket expenses in having her tainted water bottle tested after she tasted something funny when she took a sip at her desk at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network in Orange.
A lab determined that the odd taste was semen, deposited by Lallana without the woman's knowledge.
Defense attorney Eduardo Madrid argued during Lallana's trial in February that had a narcissistic personality disorder and the maturity of a 16-year-old.
While Lallana may have thought the acts were pranks, they have cost him dearly.
In addition to the 180-day jail sentence, Schwarm also ordered Lallana to register as a sex offender after ruling that the acts were for his sexual gratification.
And now he has to pay $27,410.80 in restitution.
"The idea that I had Mr. Lallana's semen in my mouth, without my knowing, against my will, for his sexual pleasure, sickens me," the victim said during her victim-impact statement in February. "What I experienced was not rape, but I feel it was a form of rape. I ultimately experienced sexually inflicted harm without my consent."
Deputy District Attorney Brock Zimmon argued that Lallana twice set a trap for his co-worker at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network by discharging his semen into a water bottle she kept on her desk.
The woman first became aware of something unusual in her water when she took a sip from her water bottle on Jan. 14, 2010, while she was working in Northwestern's Newport Beach branch. She testified that she immediately noticed an odd taste and held the bottle away from her face and saw something in the water.
She said the same thing happened four months later in the company's Orange branch, where she had been transferred. She took the bottle to a private lab, which determined the foreign substance was semen.
Orange police then launched an investigation and interviewed six co-workers from the Orange office, including Lallana.
Lallana at first denied having anything to do with the semen in the bottle, but later admitted discharging into the bottle both times, according to a tape recording of the conversation.
A subsequent DNA test confirmed that the semen was Lallana's, Zimmon said.
Article from: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44065054/ns/us_news-weird_news/
Californian was earlier sentenced to 180 days in jail, ordered to register as a sex offender
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A Fullerton man who was convicted of twice secretly depositing his semen in a co-worker's water bottle was ordered to pay more than $27,000 in restitution Monday.
Superior Court Judge Walter Schwarm, who earlier sentenced Michael Kevin Lallana, 32, to 180 days in jail for two misdemeanor battery convictions, said Lallana needs to reimburse his victim for therapy and loss of wages after she left her employment following the incidents.
The judge also told Lallana he must repay his former co-worker more than $300 for her out-of-pocket expenses in having her tainted water bottle tested after she tasted something funny when she took a sip at her desk at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network in Orange.
A lab determined that the odd taste was semen, deposited by Lallana without the woman's knowledge.
Defense attorney Eduardo Madrid argued during Lallana's trial in February that had a narcissistic personality disorder and the maturity of a 16-year-old.
While Lallana may have thought the acts were pranks, they have cost him dearly.
In addition to the 180-day jail sentence, Schwarm also ordered Lallana to register as a sex offender after ruling that the acts were for his sexual gratification.
And now he has to pay $27,410.80 in restitution.
"The idea that I had Mr. Lallana's semen in my mouth, without my knowing, against my will, for his sexual pleasure, sickens me," the victim said during her victim-impact statement in February. "What I experienced was not rape, but I feel it was a form of rape. I ultimately experienced sexually inflicted harm without my consent."
Deputy District Attorney Brock Zimmon argued that Lallana twice set a trap for his co-worker at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network by discharging his semen into a water bottle she kept on her desk.
The woman first became aware of something unusual in her water when she took a sip from her water bottle on Jan. 14, 2010, while she was working in Northwestern's Newport Beach branch. She testified that she immediately noticed an odd taste and held the bottle away from her face and saw something in the water.
She said the same thing happened four months later in the company's Orange branch, where she had been transferred. She took the bottle to a private lab, which determined the foreign substance was semen.
Orange police then launched an investigation and interviewed six co-workers from the Orange office, including Lallana.
Lallana at first denied having anything to do with the semen in the bottle, but later admitted discharging into the bottle both times, according to a tape recording of the conversation.
A subsequent DNA test confirmed that the semen was Lallana's, Zimmon said.
Article from: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44065054/ns/us_news-weird_news/
