Some tears, but above all a lot of disbelief: new police camera footage shows how shocked the reaction of staff at a healthcare facility in Phoenix (Arizona) was after a patient in a long-term coma gave birth completely unexpectedly. It remained unclear for a long time who raped her. Eventually, Nathan Sutherland (37), one of her nurses, turned out to be the culprit. He was sentenced to ten years in prison in 2021.
Retrieved December 29, 2018: A Hacienda HealthCare employee checks the diapers of a woman (29) who has been living in a vegetative state for more than 25 years. To her surprise, she suddenly noticed a baby’s head. The boy suffers from shortness of breath. The police are notified immediately.
This case caused great outrage around the world. Now, under legal pressure, images of that unreal evening have been published for the first time.
Who had access?
It shows how chaos reigns. A nurse explains how she made this shocking discovery. She was so traumatized by the situation that she ended up staying home for a month.
The officers are also asking all kinds of questions to find out who has access to her room. “Female caregivers only,” was the response.
DNA test
No one suspected Sutherland at the time. “The caregivers were actually all women,” explains one employee at the time in the report by Arizona’s Family TV. “These people wash, dress and feed patients. But there are also nurses who give medicine, among other things.
So one of them was Sutherland. It was only revealed after all male employees at the facility underwent DNA testing. “Shortly after the incidents, a parent urged him to be happy to be present. “I know my baby is safe when you’re around,” he said. So the trust in him was great,” says the same source.
Apologies
The truth hit everyone involved hard. Sutherland noted that his mother neglected him and he himself was abused in an orphanage. “I would like to apologize to the victim,” he said during his trial. “You don’t deserve to get hurt. The fact that I had to fight all those demons doesn’t really matter. I shouldn’t have done that to you and I can’t express in words how sorry I am.
“Everything has changed here”
The healthcare organization itself also responded to the new episode. “It remains heartbreaking to see those images again after nearly five years. The victim and her family remain in our hearts. That nurse’s behavior was disgusting. In the meantime, almost everything has changed here. We have new management, new staff, and new regulations. Unfortunately, no That terrible day could be erased, but now we work hard every day to prevent such suffering.
The boy, who will celebrate his fifth birthday in December, is being cared for by his mother’s relatives. The woman is now staying at another health care facility in Phoenix. She crawled through the eye of a needle when she nearly drowned when she was three years old. However, since then there has been no doubt about Karim’s existence.
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