Beja: Nurse begins to stand trial for two counts of sexual abuse.
A former nurse Beja Hospital, It begins today to be judged by any sexual abuse of a patient. The indictment states that the event has occurred, in July 2013, a bathroom, that hospital.
It begins today to be tried in the Central Criminal Court of the Court of Beja, a nurse, of 36 year old, charged with two crimes of sexual abuse resistance person incapable of, perpetrated against a sick woman appealed to the hospital emergency department of this city Alentejo.
According to the indictment order of the public prosecutor (MP), the case has occurred in the early hours 18 July 2013, a bathroom that hospital service.
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. The situation will have been taken advantage of 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, the 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, which is still.
Who knows the case told Lidador News (LN), that change had to do with "the professional capacity of nurses to strengthen the service in the SUB and not with the judicial process".
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
