TAMPA (FL)
WFLA
December 10, 2018
By Mark Douglas
Massage Envy is the target of yet another lawsuit involving allegations of sexual assault by a massage therapist.
This lawsuit involves a Winter Garden franchise where a previous therapist recently pleaded guilty in another assault case. That therapist, Cesar Guerrero, received 15 years of probation.
“Lightning doesn’t strike twice in one place often. What are the odds of that happening,” said Tampa attorney Joseph Alvarez, who filed the Massage Envy lawsuit in Hillsborough Circuit court on behalf of his unnamed client.
Alvarez sued Massage Envy a few year ago due to another massage therapist who was simply fired from a franchise in Clearwater when allegations arose and went on to assault other women while working for unrelated massage businesses.
“They’re synonymous with the Catholic Church,” Alvarez said. “It’s a head in the sand approach. ‘We don’t know what’s going on, we can’t control this,’ but the reality is they control everything that happens in and around that business.”
Earlier this year, Sarasota police arrested a Massage Envy massage therapist following several allegations of sexual misconduct.
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