Allentown sex offender once called ‘serial squirter’ pleads guilty in supermarket semen assault

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A 68-year-old Allentown man and registered sex offender pleaded guilty Monday to indecent assault and a felony failure-to-register charge tied to a 2022 attack on a woman at an Allentown supermarket, and under a negotiated agreement, he will serve 5 to 10 years in state prison, the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office said.

Michael Kevin Morris entered the plea June 15 before Lehigh County Judge Robert L. Steinberg, according to District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan. Court records list the case as awaiting sentencing.

The plea resolves two cases against Morris, who authorities say has a history of similar public indecent assault accusations.

He has been held in the Lehigh County Jail since his arrest in May 2025.

Morris is scheduled to return to court Sept. 24 for a hearing to determine whether he should be classified as a sexually violent predator, the district attorney’s office said. That hearing is set for 1:30 p.m. before Steinberg.

The case stems from a June 22, 2022, disturbance at a supermarket in the 600 block of North Seventh Street in Allentown.

Allentown police arrived to find that a woman had been touched on the buttocks and sprayed with an unknown liquid, the district attorney’s office said.

The woman told police she tried to confront Morris after realizing she had been squirted, but he fled before officers arrived.

Investigators collected evidence and reviewed surveillance video, and Allentown police Detective Damian Murray recognized Morris from earlier incidents in which Morris was accused of spraying semen on women in public, according to the district attorney’s office.

On July 7, 2022, Pennsylvania State Police determined the fluid taken from the victim’s pants was seminal fluid and matched Morris’ DNA, prosecutors said.

The accusations echo a 2016 case in Bethlehem. Morris, then described as an Easton man, pleaded no contest to three counts of indecent assault after authorities said he squirted a woman with what appeared to be semen while she shopped at the Valley Farm Market on Stefko Boulevard.

Morris’ past cases drew attention in the Lehigh Valley, where police and media reports at the time referred to him as a “serial squirter” because of accusations that he sprayed semen on women in public places.

The woman photographed the man she had been following, and police identified Morris through community tips. She told police she recognized him from an incident about two weeks earlier in the same store’s parking lot.

That conviction left Morris required to register with the state police as a sex offender. Under Pennsylvania’s Megan’s Law, offenders must appear in person at an approved registration site on a schedule set by their tier or classification.

After Morris was charged in the 2022 case, officers made several attempts to locate him, but he had not registered his address as required, the district attorney’s office said.

He was arrested in Easton in May 2025. The felony count he pleaded guilty to — failure to verify an address or be photographed — stems from that lapse.

Morris pleaded guilty to a first-degree misdemeanor count of indecent assault and a third-degree felony count of failure to verify his address, court records show. A second indecent assault count was withdrawn as part of the agreement.

Prosecutors had filed notice in February that they intended to seek a mandatory sentence.

Bail had been set at a combined $75,000 for the two cases, and the trial was scheduled twice before the plea, according to the docket.

The cases were investigated by Murray and prosecuted by Chief Deputy District Attorney Sara A. Moyer.