Former Utah AG staffer makes plea deal, accused of pulling down skirt she deemed too short

ST. GEORGE, Utah (Utah News Dispatch) — A confederate Utah female who leaned connected her position arsenic a authorities worker successful a confrontation pinch a young female whose skirt she thought was excessively short has now resolved nan criminal complaint against her.

Ida Lorenzo, 49, of Santa Clara, faced a people A misdemeanor complaint of intersexual artillery pursuing nan April incident astatine a St. George restaurant. She entered a plea successful abeyance July 30, pleading nary title to a reduced people B misdemeanor complaint that will now beryllium held pinch nary condemnation for 1 twelvemonth truthful agelong arsenic she complies pinch nan position of nan statement and commits nary caller offenses. After that, nan lawsuit tin beryllium dismissed. 

According to a grounds of nan hearing, nan young female successful nan lawsuit supported nan agreement. As portion of nan plea, Lorenzo is to person nary interaction pinch nan victim.

The case astir Lorenzo exploded erstwhile a video showing her confronting nan young woman, who was retired to meal pinch a group of friends, went viral connected TikTok. 

A caption connected nan video claimed Lorenzo was “upset my friend is wearing a mini skirt, truthful she aggressively yanks it down and says ‘you’re astir apt underage, you astir apt shouldn’t beryllium wearing that’ past causes a segment successful a engaged restaurant.”

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Lorenzo tin beryllium seen successful nan video wielding an worker badge and telling nan young female and her friends “I hap to activity for nan state, and if I person to spot your a** cheeks hanging retired again, I will telephone CPS,” a reference to Utah’s Child Protective Services office.

After seeing nan video online nan adjacent day, Lorenzo contacted St. George constabulary to study that nan young female had nary underwear connected nether her mini skirt, which exposed her genitalia to children, truthful Lorenzo pulled her skirt down to screen her, according to a probable origin affidavit revenge successful support of Lorenzo’s arrest.

However, officers questioned why Lorenzo had touched nan woman, particularly aft Lorenzo said she believed nan young female was a minor, nan affidavit shows.

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The young female successful nan video and 7 witnesses besides contacted police. The female reported that Lorenzo approached her from down pinch nary warning, saying “she felt acold hands spell up her skirt, rubbing her hips earlier she felt her skirt being pulled on,” according to nan affidavit. 

The serviceman wrote that he confirmed nan female had been wearing some underwear and shorts beneath nan skirt, which nan female said would make immoderate inappropriate vulnerability “impossible.”  

On nan time charges were revenge a termination missive was sent to Lorenzo from nan Utah Attorney General’s Office, wherever she had been moving arsenic a ineligible caput for little than 2 months, dismissing her from nan occupation because she had ​​“not passed your probationary employment play successfully.” 

The little missive cited “your non-compliance pinch policies and standards related to performance.”