A 30-year-old woman has filed a complaint of rape against a nurse at the Sainte-Anne hospital (14th arrondissement of Paris), where she was staying, we learned on Thursday from a police source.
The alleged victim, who has been hospitalized for three weeks in a psychiatric ward of the hospital group, accuses a nurse of taking advantage of the fact that she was exhausted and weak, under the influence of medication, to take her to a room without a surveillance system.
He then allegedly made inappropriate gestures and comments, according to the complainant, before caressing her, kissing her and then raping her, without a condom. The events she is reporting allegedly took place at the end of August.
“Conservative measures” taken
The Brigade of Delegations and Local Investigations is in charge of the case. Asked by AFP, the university hospital group (GHU) to which Sainte-Anne belongs, assured that “the testimony of a sexual assault, which occurred in a care environment, collected from a patient was taken very seriously by the institution”. “Several conservative measures were immediately taken. A precise protocol applies in the establishment in cases of this nature, which call for the vigilance of all teams”, adds the GHU.
“In addition to listening to and supporting patients and their families in their efforts, the professional in question is suspended as a precautionary measure, or, in the case of temporary staff as is the case here, his missions with his employer are cancelled,” he explains, assuring that the facts had been “reported to the public prosecutor” and that an internal investigation had been opened. “The hospital remains at the disposal of the justice system,” he concludes.
