Viral Utah ‘Karen’ received fired from AG’s workplace similar day she was charged with sexual battery
ST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4) — The Utah girl charged with sexual battery after allegedly yanking down an adolescent’s miniskirt in a St. George restaurant misplaced her job with the state the day she was charged, paperwork obtained by ABC4 present.
The recorded aftermath of the skirt-pulling incident went viral on TikTok. The video exhibits a self-described state worker, Ida Ann Lorenzo, reprimanding {the teenager}’s buddies, telling them that if she has to see the teenager’s “a** cheeks hanging out once more,” she’ll name Baby Protecting Providers.
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The video, which has now amassed more than 13 million views, labeled Lorenzo as a “Karen,” and its unfold on social media prompted Lorenzo to be the primary one to contact police relating to the April 20 incident in the packed entryway of Sakura Japanese Steakhouse.
Nonetheless, after {the teenager} concerned additionally got here ahead to police, it was Lorenzo who discovered herself dealing with a Class A misdemeanor depend of sexual battery.
Lorenzo, 48, of Santa Clara, was charged on April 25. That very same day, she misplaced her job with the Utah Lawyer Common’s Workplace, paperwork obtained by ABC4 present. She had been employed the month earlier than to work as a authorized secretary in Washington County.
“I’m writing to tell you that you haven’t handed your probationary employment interval efficiently and immediately, April 25, 2024, you might be being separated from state employment with the legal professional common’s workplace. Your noncompliance with insurance policies and requirements associated to efficiency contributed to this determination,” her termination letter states.
ABC4 reached out to the Utah Lawyer Common’s Workplace for added remark, however the station didn’t hear again.
Physique digital camera footage of Lorenzo’s a number of conversations with St. George police present her claiming she might see {the teenager}’s “complete [vagina] and buttcheeks,” as a result of her skirt was so brief.
Lorenzo advised police that she yanked down the teenager’s miniskirt as a result of a younger boy was within the lobby and nobody else, notably the lads current, would take motion.
“Everybody behind me applauded,” Lorenzo advised the officer in one of many cellphone calls.
{The teenager}, who’s a authorized grownup, advised police that Lorenzo got here up behind her with out warning and pulled down her skirt. She stated that she might really feel Lorenzo’s chilly arms on her pores and skin.
{The teenager} additionally offered police video of her sporting the skirt, even spinning round in it. She advised investigators that she was sporting underwear that night time.
In Lorenzo’s a number of conversations with police, the investigator defined that undesirable touching of an individual’s personal areas is in opposition to the regulation, even when she solely touched the clothes round these areas.
“There was no incident. You created it,” the investigator advised her, the physique digital camera footage exhibits. “The results of your actions have been all of this.”
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