Sexual harassment by a nurse on a patient: an apology is enough to get a sentence discount
The “repentanceof a health worker for sexually abusing a hospitalized woman was enough to have one discount Of sorry. To say it is the Court of Cassation on the case of a nurse who had reached out to a patient admitted to psychiatry while this was lying on the bed, with the electrodes on the body to measure some vital parameters.
Harassment of a nurse on the patient: the sentence and the discount on appeal
The Court of Lanciano had sentenced the man, now 67 years old, for having kissed And groped the breast and the private parts of a woman lying on a bed in an Abruzzo hospital (the case dates back to 2011). But, it rebuilds The messenger, on 18 January 2022, the Court of Appeal of L’Aquila had granted him a reduced sentence, reduced to three years and four months, precisely following the request for an apology. The judges had in fact considered that the mitigating circumstance of the “minor fact” prevailed over the aggravating circumstance of the crime committed “in violation of the duties connected with the exercise of the function of nurse assigned to the ward where the offended person was hospitalised”.
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