Thomas Stemen Sentenced To Ten Years For Stabbing A Woman With Semen-Filled Syringe

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Anne Arundel County officials announced that 52-year-old Thomas Stemen of Churchton was sentenced to 10 years successful situation followed by 5 years of supervised merchandise for stabbing a pistillate with a semen-filled syringe extracurricular a market store.

Stemen pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of felony first-degree battle and 1 number of second-degree assault. He indispensable besides acquisition a substance maltreatment and a intelligence wellness valuation and person attraction upon his merchandise from prison.

“The defendant’s actions were genuinely horrific,” said State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess. “He intentionally went retired into our assemblage with the extremity of assaulting unsuspecting women. With this sentence, helium volition beryllium removed from our assemblage for a agelong time. I americium thankful for the citizens who identified him from video released by instrumentality enforcement and that the survivors are capable to determination guardant aft this senseless assault.”

Officials said connected Feb. 18, 2020, a pistillate called to study an battle that occurred earlier that time successful the parking batch of Christopher’s Grocery Store Edgewater. She told officers portion she putting backmost her buying cart, a achromatic antheral bumped into her and she past felt a symptom successful her buttocks.

She said she jumped backmost and asked the antheral if helium burned her with a cigarette. He responded with “Ya, it felt similar a bee sting, didn’t it?” Once she was home, she observed a tiny reddish spot and what appeared to beryllium a puncture coiled connected her buttocks. She said she besides felt a bedewed substance connected her pants aft the battle occurred.

Police reviewed the surveillance video which showed a achromatic antheral walking up down the victim, pulling thing retired of his pouch and pushing it against her.

The surveillance video besides showed the aforesaid antheral lunging astatine 2 further pistillate subjects.

The adjacent day, the unfortunate observed a ample circular reddish country connected her buttocks wherever she was attacked and sought attraction astatine an country hospital.

Stemen was identified by tips from the assemblage and was arrested. A hunt warrant was obtained for the defendant’s residence and vehicle. During the hunt of the vehicle, officers recovered a ample syringe successful the driver’s broadside doorway that had an chartless liquid inside.

There were further syringes recovered successful the defendant’s residence, including 1 syringe containing an chartless substance. Also recovered astatine the location was the aforesaid sweatshirt, pants and shoes that Stemen was seen wearing connected the surveillance video.

The syringes were sent to the transgression laboratory for DNA investigation and constabulary obtained a hunt warrant for the defendant’s DNA. The substance wrong the syringe recovered successful Stemen’s river’s broadside doorway was identified arsenic semen and a DNA match.

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Stemen besides pleaded blameworthy to second-degree battle for his interaction with a 17-year-old miss who was not harmed.