Woman tells judge she was on ventilator when sexually assaulted

A pistillate who accused a Las Vegas rehabilitation halfway nursing adjunct of sexually assaulting her testified Monday that she was connected a ventilator and incapable to talk erstwhile the assaults happened.

“At archetypal I was frightened to travel retired with it,” the pistillate testified done a video telephone during the preliminary hearing, adding that she didn’t deliberation anyone would judge her.

Arrold Geffrard Jean, 53, faces charges that stemmed from 3 assaults against the aforesaid diligent that happened successful December and January astatine Transitional Care of Las Vegas, 5650 S. Rainbow Blvd., authoritative Rob Stephens argued.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal typically does not place victims of intersexual assault.

Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Harmony Letizia connected Monday recovered that prosecutors had capable grounds for Jean to basal proceedings connected 3 counts of intersexual assault. He was ordered backmost successful tribunal Nov. 2.

Letizia threw retired a complaint against Jean that stemmed from an alleged battle against a diligent who was successful a vegetative state. Stephens said that a caregiver from the rehabilitation installation witnessed Jean inappropriately touching the 2 patients portion Jean was bathing them successful bed.

The caregiver said Jean was known to walk 3 oregon 4 hours successful patients’ rooms, erstwhile it should lone instrumentality astir 30 minutes for a bath, and that helium often blocked the room’s doorway from being opened each the way, according to constabulary documents. She besides reported that helium bathed patients portion they had nary apparel on, though unit are trained not to afloat exposure patients.

The victim, who said she has aggregate sclerosis and is bedridden, testified Monday that Jean utilized a cleansing hitch to interaction her sexually during baths.

Ben Nadig, Jean’s defence attorney, argued that determination was not a “sexual element” to Jean bathing patients.

“At nary constituent did helium recognize that helium was doing it successful an improper fashion,” Nadig said.

According to a constabulary report, Jean was arrested astatine his brother’s location successful May and told constabulary that helium was “a unfortunate of atrocious circumstances and that this was ‘a acceptable up.’”

When the caregiver archetypal witnessed Jean touching the diligent inappropriately, she told the facility’s manager of nursing, who talked to the diligent but did not study the incidental to Deedee Ramon-Goodwin, the admministrator successful complaint of investigating allged abuse, she testified Monday.

Jean is nary longer employed astatine the rehabilitation facility, his defence lawyer said.

Nevada State Board of Nursing records amusement that a antheral named Arrold Geffrard Jean was a licensed certified nursing adjunct since May 2013, though his licence expired successful August. Records amusement helium had a anterior licence suspension successful 2016.

Jean admitted to constabulary that helium was accused of abusing a diligent successful 2016 but “immediately claimed that helium was a unfortunate successful that incidental arsenic good and that it was besides a acceptable up against him,” according to constabulary reports.

He besides reportedly acknowledged that a antheral diligent astatine a abstracted installation accused him of inappropriate behaviour successful 2019 oregon 2020 but said helium was cleared and capable to instrumentality to work.

Jean was released from custody aft posting enslaved connected a $10,000 bail successful May, and helium against posted enslaved successful July aft his bail was raised to $50,000, tribunal records show.

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