--- title: Woman Squirts Breast Milk on Police Officer and Gets Charged description: An Australian woman has been denied bail after squirting her breast milk over a police officer. The case is being treated as assault canonical: https://time.com/3761065/woman-breast-milk-squirt-police-officer-erica-leeder/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-27T04:16:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:06.610Z og:title: Woman Held After Squirting Breast Milk at Police Officer og:description: The case is being treated as assault. og:url: https://time.com/3761065/woman-breast-milk-squirt-police-officer-erica-leeder/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5819f8487f4bee36/6987858c8e060196f945afbc/466457197.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 5123 og:image:height: 3410 og:image:alt: 466457197 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman Held After Squirting Breast Milk at Police Officer twitter:description: The case is being treated as assault. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5819f8487f4bee36/6987858c8e060196f945afbc/466457197.jpg?branch=production ---  # A Woman Squirted Breast Milk on a Police Officer and Got Charged With Assault by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Mar 27, 2015 4:16 AM UTC by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Mar 27, 2015 4:16 AM UTC A woman in Western Australia was [denied bail](https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/26803341/woman-held-after-breast-milk-assault/) on Wednesday after being charged with assaulting a police officer — with her breast milk. Erica Leeder, 26, was being strip-searched on Tuesday after being arrested on an unspecified charge when the incident occurred, the _West Australian_ newspaper reported. Leeder was naked from the waist up when she allegedly grabbed her own breast and squirted milk onto the face, arms and clothes of the female officer patting her down. The Western Australia Police Union said Tuesday’s incident was being billed as an assault because of the possibility of disease transfer through breast milk. Leeder, who has a previous conviction of assault against a police officer, will remain in custody until next Tuesday and has been ordered to undergo a mental-health examination. \[[_West Australian_](https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/26803341/woman-held-after-breast-milk-assault/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3761065/woman-breast-milk-squirt-police-officer-erica-leeder/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3761065/woman-breast-milk-squirt-police-officer-erica-leeder/"},"headline":"A Woman Squirted Breast Milk on a Police Officer and Got Charged With Assault","datePublished":"2015-03-27T04:16:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:06.610Z","description":"She is currently being held in police custody","url":"https://time.com/3761065/woman-breast-milk-squirt-police-officer-erica-leeder/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Australia","Bizarre","Arrest"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5819f8487f4bee36/6987858c8e060196f945afbc/466457197.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5819f8487f4bee36/6987858c8e060196f945afbc/466457197.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"466457197","caption":"466457197","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3761065/woman-breast-milk-squirt-police-officer-erica-leeder/","name":"A Woman Squirted Breast Milk on a Police Officer and Got Charged With Assault"}}]}] ```