Police have arrested a 28-year-old nurse for allegedly raping an Italian patient on admission at the Damango government hospital in the Northern Region.
The nurse, Ernest Green, has been accused by 24-year-old Italian national of having unprotected sex with her on Friday dawn, few hours after she was admitted at the hospital on Thursday midnight.
According to the Northern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Mohammed Yussif Tanko, the incident according to the complainant happened on Friday, April 6, 2018 at about 4.00 am in a private ward of the hospital.
The complainant said she was rushed to the hospital at about 11:50 pm the previous day suffering from malaria.
The Nurse, according to the victim deceived her to a separated, lonely facility in the hospital, where he promised her of enhanced treatment but ended up raping her repeatedly after she was enfeebled by drugs.
“The complainant said she was rushed to the hospital at about 11:50 pm the previous day when attacked by malaria. She said the suspect approached her and told her the hospital has a private ward if she would like to take it and she agreedâ€, Police spokesman in the Northern Region, ASP Yussif Tanko said in a statement to journalists, late Sunday.
The victim continued that “she got up at dawn and managed to make it to the washroom and on her return, she found it difficult to climb back on to the bed and the suspect came in around that time to assist her onto the bedâ€.
According to her, Ernest sat at the tip of the bed after the assistance and begun to grope her.
She said the groping went on for several minutes until suddenly the suspect pulled her breast into his mouth, brought down her panties and had long unprotected sex with her.
She said she was too weak to resist or respond to the assault.
Police arrested the nurse on Sunday after a report was filed by the recuperating victim.
The suspect has however denied the allegations but remains in custody while the Northern Regional office of the Criminal Investigations Department has taken over investigations.