BY TANYA ALBERT
The Cincinnati Enquirer
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A 27-year-old woman testified Friday she never thought Earl Ingels would sexually molest her.
But she told a Hamilton County Common Pleas Court jury that one day five years ago she awoke, disoriented, to find Mr. Ingels -- in whose office she occasionally worked -- sucking on her left breast.
"I was just hoping it was a bad dream," the woman testified. The Enquirer is not identifying the woman because of the nature of the charges.
Mr. Ingels, 52, 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 kidnapping.
The woman was at Mr. Ingels' home/office to help gather information so the business could file its taxes. Mr. Ingels poured her a Coke while she looked over the paperwork, she testified.
She said she didn't see him put anything in her drink, but that she became very sleepy after she drank about half of it -- almost the same thing that happened to the other seven women in the case.
She said she lay down on the couch, and the next thing she remembers he had her shirt and bra pushed up. She blacked out again and when she awoke she was fully clothed on the couch and Mr. Ingels was sitting on a chair, she testified.
She said she didn't go to the police at the time and didn't work in the office for about three months.
"I just wanted it to be gone," she testified.
But that wasn't the last incident.
When the woman did go back to help file some papers about three months later, she testified, he drugged her again. She said Mr. Ingels went to a store near the business and brought her back a 16-ounce bottle of Coke. The cap had been opened, but he told her he dropped it and opened it outside so it wouldn't explode in the office.
She believed him.
That is, until she felt like she had a buzz similar to a feeling after drinking several alcoholic drinks.
"He put something in the Coke and that's why it was open," she testified. "Not because he had dropped it."
Mr. Ingels' trial continues Monday.
