Beja: Five years later, nurse on trial for two counts of sexual abuse.
A former nurse Beja Hospital, of 36 year old, It will be judged by two crimes of sexual abuse of a person incapable of resistance, perpetrated against a sick woman to the emergency service of that health unit.
According to the indictment order of the public prosecutor (MP), completed in September 2017, that the Lidador News (LN) We had access, the case has occurred in the early hours 18 July 2013, a bathroom that the Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, located in Alentejo.
According to the MP, the woman was unable for any reaction or body movement, by virtue of the applied medication and also because of being under the influence of narcotics, situation that have been seized by the defendant to abuse the victim, a gurney inside a bathroom.
The accused sought to avoid trial, calling for the opening statement of the process, but, last day 15 October instruction judge upheld the decision of MP, and the accused will be tried by a Collective Court, risk being condemned to a sentence of more than five years in prison.
Had in Beja Hospital breast, as "an excellent professional and a person integrates", the nurse was after the events transferred to a basic emergency service (SUB) a health center from another location in the district.
Anyone who knows the process told LN, that change had to do with "the professional capacity of nurses to strengthen the service in SUB", said.
At the material time the Board of Directors (CA) the Local Health Unit of Baixo Alentejo (ULSBA), EPE issued a statement confirming that “as a matter of fact, on 18 morning was reported by the Medical Team Leader, the above shift, Directing the Hospital Clinic, the complaint of a sick”, adding that “decided to open an investigation process and not suspend the professional targeted in the complaint”, finishing off that “the conclusions of this incident, and in strict compliance with the law, will be timely, communicated”, not knowing what the results of the internal investigation carried out by AC ULSBA.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
