Multiple companies in Texas are facing a lawsuit for employing a janitor accused of urinating into employee water bottles and thereby infecting more than a dozen victims with sexually transmitted diseases.

The lawsuit, stemming from the October arrest of janitor Lucio Catarino Diaz, was filed on behalf of 13 women who say the janitor urinated in their water bottles on the job in an East Houston office building which resulted in positive tests for the herpes simplex 1 virus, KRIV-TV reported.

The lawsuit says that several women noticed their water bottles "smelling and tasting foul" in August 2022, which prompted a woman to set up a hidden camera that captured Diaz approaching her desk, setting his supplies down, and "rub his penis on the interior and mouth of a water bottle."

Janitor Lucio Catarino Diaz has admitted to rubbing his genitals on the water bottles of female employees.

(Houston Law Firm Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner)

"He was allowed to come back in, and he continued to conduct himself this way and who knows how many people picked up their water bottles during that six days and were affected by his actions," Spurlock added.