Divorce lawyer, 51, ‘stripped naked and masturbated at work while swigging beer’

Shane Taylor is said to have repeatedly pestered a female paralegal - before firing her after she spurned his advances

A 51 year-old divorce lawyer stripped naked in his office and fondled his privates while drinking a beer, it is claimed. Shane Taylor was arrested late Thursday, a week and a half after a lawsuit was filed over his alleged repeated sexual harassment of a staffer at his office in Spanish Fort, Alabama.

Taylor is said to have targeted the paralegal by grabbing her breasts and buttocks, and pinning her against a desk. He is further accused of threatening to fire the woman from her job if she refused to give him oral sex – and is said to have followed through on that warning after the woman continued to spurn him.

Taylor’s alleged sex pest behavior is said to have culminated on an occasion when he exposed himself to the paralegal at work. He then took his other clothes off, and lay on the floor while fondling himself and drinking a beer.

WKRG reported that the paralegal accused Taylor of sexual assault, battery and invasion of privacy after she was dismissed. The lawyer has yet to be charged over those incidents, and was instead picked up on Thursday over a separate domestic violence allegation made by a different person.

Taylor’s website boasts that he enlisted in the US Army, then worked as a police officer for 10 years after leaving. The under-fire lawyer also boasts of his literary achievements, including a book on privacy and the war on drugs. His bail has been set at $1,000.

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