A woman hired to be a piercing apprentice by the owner of a body art business said the owner sexually assaulted her as he demonstrated how to do piercings on women, according to a Boca Raton police arrest report.

Brett Matheys, 50, of Boca Raton, is accused of sexually assaulting the woman twice. Boca Raton police arrested him on Thursday.

The 18-year-old Lynn University student, who was not identified in the report, told police that in early September, she first went to Matheys’ Boca Body Art Tattoo Parlor in the 1800 block of Northwest Boca Raton Boulevard when her boyfriend wanted to get a body piercing.

After returning to the business with a friend the next day, the woman told police Matheys offered her a position as a piercing apprentice. She accepted and a day after that, she was back at the shop.

The woman went into a piercing room where Matheys told the woman to take off her pants and underwear so he could demonstrate different piercings on her genitals, according to the report.

The woman said she was uncomfortable, but complied as Matheys put on gloves and began cleaning her vagina with a cleaning solution, causing “severe burning” that caused the woman problems throughout the night. After about an hour of demonstrating piercings, the woman left, according to the report.

She came back two days later, and Matheys again said he wanted to demonstrate on the woman how to do genital piercings, according to the report. The woman asked if Matheys had an anatomy model but he said the woman wouldn’t be able to learn with one.

This time, Matheys didn’t wear gloves and began massaging the woman’s genitals for about five minutes, the report states.

After Matheys made a sexually suggestive remark, the woman refused and said Matheys then wanted to use a needle to let her know how the piercing felt, according to the report.

The woman said Matheys would also make her kiss and hug him each time she arrived or left work, according to the report.

Police arrived at the business Sept. 22, where Matheys denied assaulting the woman, and added that he only cleaned the woman’s vaginal area and always wears gloves.

“Matheys was upset about the allegations, the removal of his computer equipment, and his phone,” according to the report.

But as a Boca Raton police detective watched surveillance video of the demonstrations in the room, the events matched up with the woman’s accounts.

Police also consulted a doctor, who said cleaning the genital area before a piercing should last no more than five to 10 seconds.

“Matheys was not watching how he cleaned [the woman’s] vagina and that his method of rubbing and massaging the area, was in fact not cleaning the area, but was more sexual in nature,” the doctor told police, according to the report.

Matheys faces two counts of sexual assault and was booked into Palm Beach County Jail, where he remains on $50,000 bail.

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