Man Who Stabbed Woman With Semen Syringe Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison

Anne Arundel County Police

September 13, 2021, 6:38 am

The past year and a half has proved to us that just walking around a grocery store can be a surprisingly harrowing experience, between casual anti-maskers and people straight up coughing in strangers’ faces or licking all the produce to stir up trouble. But even before the pandemic, one grocery store attack turned up a jarringly unexpected crime — a man trying to attack strangers with needles filled with his own semen.

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Last February, Thomas Stemen (yes, his name is “Stemen”) came up behind a random shopper in a Maryland store and jabbed her in the behind with a needle. The shopper, a woman named Katie Peters, was uncertain what exactly had happened until the burning pain set in shortly thereafter.

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Once at home, Peters noticed a small puncture wound and contacted police, before eventually going to the hospital to take preventative medicine, as the area around where she was stabbed had turned red and grown to cover a larger surface.

Security footage led police to Stemen, who had also attempted to assault two other women at Christopher’s Fine Foods in Churchton the same day. They found multiple syringes throughout his home and vehicle, including several filled with his semen.

Maryland man has been put behind bars for 10 yrs after CCTV footage showed him assault a woman by injecting her buttocks with a syringe filled with his own semen – having already tried the attack on two other women.#BizarreCrime pic.twitter.com/ikoqDPJnnS

— Jitender Sharma (@capt_ivane) September 11, 2021

Now, over a year later, Stemen pled guilty to felony first-degree assault against Peters and second-degree assault against a 17-year-old who he managed to make contact with but not jab during his time in the supermarket. Last week, he was sentenced to ten years in prison and five years supervised release for his bizarre crime.

As news of Stemen’s sentencing hit the internet, people on social media were understandably both appalled and deeply confused by the unusual crime.

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State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess noted in a statement that “the defendant’s actions were truly horrific. He intentionally went out into our community with the goal of assaulting unsuspecting women.”

“With this sentence, he will be removed from our community for a long time,” she added.

Lead image: Anne Arundel County Police

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*First Published: September 13, 2021, 6:38 am