A stranger injected a woman with semen while she was running errands. Now he's going to prison.

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A stranger injected a woman with semen while she was running errands. Now he’s going to prison.

By Jonathan Edwards
September 13, 2021 at 6:03 a.m. EDT
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The clatter of Katie Peters’s shopping cart drowned out any sound from the man behind her.

She didn’t see him as he sneaked up. She didn’t hear anything as he pulled out his weapon.

But then she felt a sharp pain in her buttock.



Thomas Stemen (Anne Arundel County Police Department/AP)

“I knocked whatever was behind me,” she said in an interview with WTTG, and turned around to see her attacker. She started yelling at him and asked whether he had burned her with a cigarette.

“Ya, it felt like a bee sting, didn’t it?” the man responded.

But it wasn’t a cigarette. Thomas Stemen had stuck her with a syringe and injected her with semen.

Last week, Stemen, 53, was sentenced in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court to 10 years in prison for the February 2020 assault at a grocery store in Churchton, Md. He was also convicted of second-degree assault for making contact with, but not hurting, a 17-year-old girl in the same supermarket and sentenced to five years of probation for that.

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By Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards is a reporter on The Washington Post's Morning Mix team. Before joining The Post, he covered public safety for The Virginian-Pilot and Lincoln Journal Star. Twitter https://twitter.com/jonathanreports