Janitor admits repeatedly urinating on chair

Details have emerged in the case of a custodian at the Clark County government building charged with urinating on a court clerk's chair – an incident that was caught on tape. The Clark County Sheriff's Office said the video is now considered evidence, so they can't release it until Stephen Thompson's guilt or innocence is proved in court. Two of the people who watched the video said they've never seen anything like it before.

When Mark Van Glider, the building director, started receiving complaints from the circuit clerk's office nine weeks ago about an unusual substance turning up on one of the clerk's chairs, he didn't think it was strange, at first. "The first two or three times, we had someone clean it up and then it got to be so often that after the fourth time we started investigating pretty hard," he said. "We had a local contractor come in and put a hidden camera above her desk."

The strange substance turned up again for a fifth time Wednesday morning. Van Glider described what he saw after watching the video tape with the prosecutor and detectives. "We saw Steve Thompson, a second shift employee, urinating on the chair and then trying to wipe it clean with a paper towel," he said.



"I've been a prosecutor for 25 years and we've had our share of unusual perversion," said Clark County Prosecuting Attorney Steven D. Stewart. "This is the first time I've ever had a case where our defendant allegedly victimized somebody by urinating on somebody's property. I understand it's not rape, robbery, burglary or murder, but it's pretty disgusting and it's got most people here at the courthouse here upset."

Detectives arrested Thompson when he turned up to work on Wednesday afternoon. Thompson was charged with two counts of attempted battery by bodily waste since the clerk never sat down in the chair and the urine never touched her.

Stewart said since the clerk is an employee of the Clerk Circuit Court, the crime committed against her is considered a felony, which carries a possible sentence of six months to three years for each count.

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