Nigerian healthcare worker jailed in UK for kissing vulnerable patient
A Nigerian well being assistant at York Hospital, Adewale Kudabo, has been sentenced to twelve months in penal advanced for sexually assaulting a feminine affected person beneath his care.
Kudabo, 47, turned into as soon as convicted on two counts of sexual assault at York Crown Court docket on Tuesday, after pleading responsible to the offences.
The court docket heard that the sufferer, who turned into as soon as nearly fully immobile because of the a foremost medical condition, turned into as soon as assaulted twice whereas in her health center bed.
Prosecutor Henry Fernandez urged the court docket that the first incident took place after Kudabo gave the affected person a bed bath and leaned over to kiss her on the lips. No subject her attempts to shrink back, she turned into as soon as unable to withstand because of the her condition.
About a days later, Kudabo returned to give one other bed bath, which the girl declined. He then kissed her all any other time whereas she lay helpless, Fernandez said.
“She turned into as soon as in slightly just a few disaster and nearly entirely depending on others for her care,” he added.
The incidents took location 9 months after Kudabo arrived within the UK from Nigeria. At the time, he turned into as soon as employed as a healthcare assistant at York Hospital and residing within the South Bank attach of town.
When wondered by police, Kudabo claimed he kissed the girl on the brow, no longer the lips, and said his actions were supposed as a gesture of sympathy. He urged officers it turned into as soon as “in maintaining along with his job.”
In a sufferer influence assertion learn in court docket, the girl described ongoing trauma since the incidents. She said she had experienced “helplessness, fright and loss of belief,” on the side of depression, fright, and habitual flashbacks.
Kudabo’s defence counsel, Jerry Sodipe, said the defendant accredited that his behaviour turned into as soon as “flawed” but highlighted his beforehand unblemished story.
Sentencing him, Pick Alex Menary said, “You abused the belief placed in you as a carer. She turned into as soon as particularly inclined—immobile and depending on you for her care. I am joyful the kiss turned into as soon as on the lips, no longer the brow. What you presumably did has had a profound influence on the sufferer’s lifestyles.”
The enjoy added that the character of the offence required an instantaneous custodial sentence “to mark the seriousness of what you presumably did to any individual for your care.”
Kudabo can support half of of his 12-month sentence in custody and the leisure on licence. He has furthermore been placed on the intercourse offenders register for 10 years.
