BY TANYA ALBERT
The Cincinnati Enquirer
When a young woman's boyfriend received photos of her scantily clothed in the mail, she was outraged and immediately wanted to figure out where they could have come from.
She said knew she didn't pose for them and although she at one time worked as an exotic dancer who stripped, she never allowed people to take photos of her.
Then, the woman testified in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Wednesday, a friend at work told her that Colerain Township businessman Earl Ingels was known for drugging women. The woman testified she had worked for Mr. Ingels for several weeks last summer.
The woman, whom the Enquirer is not naming because of the nature of the charges, was one of several to testify against Mr. Ingels Wednesday.He is accused of drugging eight women and then sexually molesting some of them. He is charged with kidnapping, gross sexual imposition, sexual battery and attempted battery.
On Wednesday, defense attorney Joni Turner, on cross examination, asked the woman whether the photos could have been taken while she was stripping, especially because the woman testified she stripped for Mr. Ingels in his home on two occasions before she did secretarial work in his home office.
But the woman testified that the blue jeans, Mickey Mouse underwear and black bra in the photos were the same things she had worn to Mr. Ingels' house while she was doing secretarial work for him. It wasn't an outfit she would have worn for any exotic dancing, the woman said. "I know I was drugged when those pictures were taken."
Mr. Ingels' trial continues today.
