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Healthcare Security Weekly, June 23, 2008
A Canadian judge June 18 sentenced a Northern Ontario woman to five years in prison for the kidnapping of a newborn baby from a hospital last year. The 29-year-old woman pleaded guilty to the November 2007 kidnapping of a baby girl from the Sudbury Regional Hospital, which was recorded on hospital security video, reported CTV News. The sentence came as a shock to the woman and her defense attorney who had sought house arrest and community service instead of jail time, reported United Press International.
In Cleveland, a judge sentenced a man to 10 years in jail for sex assaults on three Fairview Hospital patients. The defendant pleaded guilty to charges of sexual battery, abduction, gross sexual imposition, burglary, and theft, reported WRYC-TV. Prosecutors said the 32-year-old man assaulted three patients inside the hospital in August, 2007. Security officers located the man carrying stolen hospital equipment and apprehended him when he tried to escape.
In Norwalk, CT, a jury trial began June 13 to hear evidence in a sex assault case in which a former Hall-Brooke Hospital security guard is accused of assaulting a female mental healthcare worker at the Westport campus, reported the Norwalk Advocate. A 41-year-old man is charged in connection with two alleged incidents at the hospital on December 4, 2006.
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