Maryland man whose attack on a woman with a semen-filled syringe was caught on camera sentenced to 10 years

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A Maryland man who plunged a semen-filled syringe into a woman in an Anne Arundel County grocery store is headed to prison.

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Thomas Bryon Stemen was sentenced to 10 years in prison for first and second-degree assault.

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Stemen attacked Katie Peters in February at Christopher's Fine Foods on Shady Side Road in Churchton.

The incident was caught on surveillance video.

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According to investigators, Stemen tried to attack two other people before Peters.

Stemen had recently moved from Ohio and had six prior convictions on his record from 1986 to 1996.

CrudelyAnimated on September 12nd, 2021 at 16:44 UTC »

I read the article and several threads. I feel like the more I read this, the less I understand it. He filled a syringe with semen and stabbed someone with it in a public place. This is one of the most premeditated acts of violence and weirdness I’ve ever heard of.

h0twired on September 12nd, 2021 at 16:32 UTC »

This guy has never watched CSI.

He literally attacked someone with his DNA

TwilitSky on September 12nd, 2021 at 14:46 UTC »

Stemen had recently moved from Ohio and had six prior convictions on his record from 1986 to 1996.   

*story ends*

Wait, what?!