Caustic Drink, Toxic Man

NOVEMBER 23--Meet Sean Kobin. The Wisconsin man, a freak if ever there was one, will be spending his Thanksgiving in a Milwaukee jail due to his toxic sexual compulsion. Kobin, you see, gets off by watching women vomit, a process he helps along by feeding them caustic liquid substances. The 20-year-old was charged earlier this month with felony reckless injury when a woman suffered serious chemical burns after drinking a solution containing sodium hydroxide, a bleach-like substance that Kobin told cops he used at his job to strip aluminum from copper. When Chrystal Kolinski fell to the ground and began vomiting blood, Kobin captured her agony with a camcorder, according to a Circuit Court criminal complaint. Kolinski, 33, told investigators that Kobin had pestered her for days to drink an 'unknown liquid' which, she thought, 'just tasted gross and would not hurt her.' Instead, Kobin's brew nearly killed her, causing severe burns to the single mother's esophagus and stomach. Kolinski, who remains hospitalized, just filed a lawsuit against Kobin over the November 8 incident, charging that he 'intentionally induced' her to ingest 'concentrated drain cleaner in order to videotape her vomiting for his own sexual gratification.' Kobin told cops that he asked Kolinski to drink the solution 'because he needed to get a rush,' according to the complaint. He also acknowledged asking girls to 'drink things in the past, that it does get him excited,' but added that guys drinking Drano did not deliver such thrills. Additional felony charges are expected since Kobin's video camera contained footage of other women, some juveniles, getting ill after drinking his potions. Kobin was convicted last year of talking a 13-year-old girl into drinking bleach, an act termed a sex crime and which landed him on Wisconsin's sex offender list. (5 pages)