Lois K. Feldman, 38, of Carroll, Iowa admitted she drank a little too much wine last Saturday before attending the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers vs. Iowa Hawkeyes game with her husband at the Minnesota Metrodome.
At halftime she left her seat to go to the ladies room. Along the way, she ended up in a stall in the men’s restroom having sexual intercourse with a man she’d never met before.
A campus police officer entering the men’s room noticed a crowd of men surrounding a handicapped stall cheering and clapping.
The officer saw two sets of feet with two pairs of underwear dropped down on the floor.
After separating them, police ticketed the married mother of three and Ross M. Walsh, 26, for public drunkenness and indecent exposure.
Campus police described both Feldman and Walsh as upset, drunk and uncooperative.
But the story doesn’t end there.
Police turned Feldman over to her husband. And they turned Walsh over to his girlfriend.
Feldman told Register.com that her husband, Kelly, is supportive of her. She said he faults himself for not going with her when she left her seat to use the restroom before halftime.
She acknowledges being drunk at the game but she doesn’t recall the incident or being in the men’s restroom. Feldman and her attorney believe her drink was drugged, but they don’t say when or how.
“I would never ever do that,” Feldman said. “My kids are my life. I go to church every Sunday. Everybody thinks something got put in my drink.”
But the officer who wrote the police report, described what he observed as “sexual intercourse.” He wrote that Feldman made no allegations of non-consensual sex at the scene and she refused to take a sobriety test.
After noting the case was closed, University of Minnesota Police Chief Greg Hestness said, “The actions went on for some period of time with many witnesses on hand and no one reported either party was objecting.”
But Feldman is planning to file a complaint or seek a reopening of the investigation in Minneapolis. She said she was fired Wednesday from her job at an assisted living facility where she was an administrator.
“It’s ruined my life,” she said through tears. “Not just the incident but the press.”
