Nurse arrested for raping Italian patient
A male nurse of the Damongo Government hospital in the Northern
Region has sexually assaulted a debilitated malaria female patient under
his care at the facility, after allegedly giving her an overdosed
medication.
The victim, an Italian national, accused Ernest Green, 28, of having
unprotected sex with her on Friday dawn, few hours after she was
admitted at the hospital on Thursday midnight.
Police arrested the nurse on Sunday after a report was filed by the recuperating victim, who narrated how the assault unfolded.
The suspect, according to the victim deceived her to a separated,
lonely facility in the hospital, where he promised her of enhanced
treatment but ended up raping her repeatedly after she was enervated by
drugs prescribed by the nurse.
“The complainant said she was rushed to the hospital at about 11:50
pm the previous day when attacked by malaria. She said the suspect
approached her and told her the hospital has a private ward if she would
like to take it and she agreed”, Police spokesman in the Northern
Region, ASP Yussif Tanko said in a statement to journalists, late
Sunday.
The victim continued that “she got up at dawn and managed to make it
to the washroom and on her return, she found it difficult to climb back
on to the bed and the suspect came in around that time to assist her
onto the bed”
According to her, Ernest sat at the tip of the bed after the assistance and begun to grope her.
She said the groping went on for several minutes until suddenly the
suspect pulled her breast into his mouth, brought down her panties and
have long unprotected sex with her.
She said she was too weak to resist or respond to the assault.
The suspect was arrested by the Damango police and has since been
transferred to the regional office of the Criminal Investigation
Department for further probe.
He remains in custody but the condition of the foreign national not immediately known.
Source: Eliasu Tanko
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