A 36-year-old male nurse, is arrested and charged with rape after a woman who for years has been in a coma, suddenly gave birth to a child in December, enter ABC15 Arizona.
the Nurse had a responsibility to see to the woman, and the indictment comes as a consequence of all the male employees at the nursing home Hacienda HealthCare was DNA-tested, informs the police in Phoenix, Arizona, at a press conference.
Vegetative state
The 29-year-old woman, which belongs to the apache people, has been in the so-called vegetative state for over ten years, after a drukningsulykke. According to the nursing home reacts she is not on the external stimuli, and is “completely dependent”.
the Staff had no idea that the woman was pregnant, and the surprise was great when she got fødselsrier at christmas in, and gave birth to a healthy boy.
According to the gynecologist Greg Marchand, it is almost a wonder that the birth went well.
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This was a very dangerous situation without monitoring. She may have had trier in hours or days, and this could have resulted in dødfødsel, ” he says to the TELEVISION station KTVK, according to the newspaper Refinery29.
He adds:
– There is no doubt that she was able to feel pain, but I don’t know how much awareness that was present for actually to perceive the disorder.
Hoderulling
the Case has attracted great attention, and the privately run nursing home even called it “very disturbing”. A physician has voluntarily, while another one is suspended as a result of the scandal. Pleiehjemmets adf.dir. resigned from 7. January.
the nursing home have now changed their procedures so that a man hereafter shall always have the result of a woman when he is going into the room of a female patient. In addition, the monitoring of pasientområder sharpened.
Also the woman’s tribe, the Chiricahua Apache, is upset over the matter.
Woman in vegetative state with sjokkfødsel. Now DNA-tested all employees
– When you have one of their people admitted to treatment, when they are at their most vulnerable and avghengig of the other, trust in the carer, ” says tribe spokesperson Terry Rambler, according to AFP.
Loving homes
The 29-year-old woman’s family believes she is not in a coma, but is able to recognize family and provide a limited response.
– She likes to be read to and be with people she knows, ” says the family’s attorney John Micheaels for the newspaper AZ Central.
He has previously stated that the woman’s son is “born into a loving home”.
According to the New York Times was a male nurse fired in 2013, after he made sexual remarks about patients. After this sharpened Hacienda HealthCare practices – but it could not prevent the abuse that is now uncovered.
