nurse suspected of rape of 15-year-old patient indicted

A nurse from the Jean-Verdier hospital in Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis) was indicted and imprisoned for rape and sexual assault on a vulnerable person, after a 15-year-old patient denounced his actions, said Friday evening the Bobigny prosecutor's office. A judicial investigation was opened by the Bobigny public prosecutor's office. “If this nurse has been working in the pediatric emergency room for seven or eight years, we wonder whether there have not been other victims. Judicial information will allow us to investigate whether it is a predator.”underlined Alexandre Lobry, lawyer for the teenager and her family.

Welcoming the placement of the 37-year-old nurse in pre-trial detention, the lawyer testifies to the“state of astonishment” of the young girl. “She doesn't speak, she is traumatized. The parents are confused: they don’t understand that it happened in a hospital and by a member of the hospital staff”he adds.

The victim having a panic attack

The nurse was arrested Tuesday evening around 7:00 p.m. as he arrived to take his shift at the Assistance publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) establishment. He is suspected of having, the previous night, entered the room of a 15-year-old girl hospitalized in the structure.

“On Sunday, the respondent was very tactile with my client, he allowed himself to touch her, she alerted the health personnel”in vain, assured Me Lobry. Then “on Monday evening, the nurse entered the young girl's room, took off her glasses and took her cell phone to put the flash in her face, in order to force oral sex on her”he said. In the hours following the incident, the victim suffered a panic attack, which alerted medical teams who then called the police.