A court in the United Kingdom has sentenced a Nigerian health care worker Adewale Kudabo to one year of imprisonment for sexually assaulting a patient at a York hospital.
The prosecutor, Henry Fernnandez, told the court that Kudabo assaulted the victim on two occasions after being tasked to give her a bed bath.
According to Fernnandez, the health worker kissed the patient, who was going through a lot of pain, on her lips.
The prosecutor added that amid the pain, the patient’s attempted t to resist Kudabo’s kiss by slightly moving away but could not.
The prosecutor said the incident had led to the patient “suffering with anxiety and experiencing flashbacks”.
During a trial in April, Kudabo pleaded guilty to the two-count charge he was facing, and on June 10, Judge Alex Menary sentenced him to a one-year jail term.
The judge said Kudabo betrayed the trust the patient placed in him as a medical practitioner.
Menary, however, said he must serve six months in prison before he can be eligible for release.
The company running the hospital, the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has apologised to the victim and confirmed relieving Kudabo of his job soon after the incident.
Kudabo’s lawyer, Jerry Sodipe, told the court his client had no previously convictions and his actions were driven by sympathy he had for the patient.
