"Signature Stress Melter Ritual" Gone Wrong

OCTOBER 26--A Florida masseur was arrested yesterday for allegedly sexually assaulting a 49-year-old female client in the midst of a $220 “Signature Stress Melter Ritual” at a Hyatt Regency hotel.

Cops charge that Dayron Escobar, 24, was massaging the woman Friday when the sexual battery occurred at the hotel in Weston. Escobar began massaging the woman’s shoulders “and then worked his way down to her buttocks,” according to a Broward County Sheriff’s Office report.

During the massage, “the suspect asked her if she wanted him to stop when she answered, ‘No, continue.’”

After a few minutes, the woman told investigators, Escobar’s “fingers penetrated her vagina.” The woman said that she immediately “got up from the table bed,” whereupon Escobar placed “his mouth on her breast without her consent,” a deputy reported, adding, “She stated that as she stood up she observed that the defendant pants zipper was down and his penis was erected.”

The alleged victim told investigators that Escobar told her, “I thought you wanted it. I’m sorry, do you want to take a bath or go to the sauna?”

The woman immediately reported the incident at the Red Door Spa to hotel management, as Escobar “left the property shortly thereafter.” Escobar, pictured in the above mug shot, was booked into the Broward County jail in lieu of $7500 bond. He had worked at the hotel spa for four years. (2 pages)