Massage therapist accused of sex attack on client, cops say - Orlando Sentinel

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Massage therapist Cesar Guerrero was charged last week in a sex attack on a client over the summer at Massage Envy, a Winter Garden business.

Guerrero told authorities his hand may have slipped while performing a 90-minute therapeutic massage on a woman. The client later told police nothing like that had happened to her in more than 15 years of massage therapy, records state.

"Additionally, he rubbed in the middle of my breasts which made me feel uncomfortable and I have never had anyone do that to me before in a massage," the woman wrote in a sworn statement.

Guerrero was fired days after the June 13 incident, records show.


His arrest waited six months while parallel investigations were conducted by Winter Garden police and the Florida Department of Health, which licenses massage therapists, records show.

"The conclusion reached by this investigation is that the dangerous environment was created either by negligence or intent by Guerrero's failure to immediately adjust the draping and sufficiently protecting his client," Detective David Vernon wrote. "In the face of the sworn allegation of sexual battery made by (the victim) sufficient probable cause is established to believe the offense did occur."


Guerrero, 25, of Clermont, was arrested last Thursday and released within hours from the Lake County Jail after posting $1,000 bond on a sexual-battery charge. He became a licensed masseur in 2013, records show. He could not be reached for comment.

"It was definitely not intentional. It could have been an accident," Guerrero told a state DOH investigator. "If I wanted to do that to people I could. But I'm not like that."

Court records state Guerrero's accuser has retained a civil lawyer.

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