a nurse indicted in Seine-Saint-Denis for rape of a young patient

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A nurse from the Jean-Verdier hospital in Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis) was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention for rape and sexual assault of vulnerable peopleafter a 15-year-old patient denounced her actions, the Bobigny prosecutor's office said this Friday, December 20, 2024.

“She is traumatized”

A judicial investigation was opened by the Bobigny public prosecutor's office. “If this nurse has been working in pediatric emergencies for seven or eight years, we ask ourselves whether there were other victims. The 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 the young girl’s “state of astonishment”. “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.

Hospital staff had been alerted

The nurse was arrested Tuesday evening around 7 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 accused was very tactile with my client, he allowed himself to touch her, she had alerted health personnel”, in vain, assured Me Lobry. Then “on Monday evening, the nurse came into 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. -he related.

In the hours following the incident, the victim suffered a panic attack, which alerted medical teams who then called the police.

WITH AFP

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