BBCA healthcare assist employee has been jailed for 9 years for intercourse assaults on two hospital sufferers.
Ieuan Crump, 27, carried out pretend and “solely pointless” examinations on the ladies on the Grange Hospital in Cwmbran for his personal sexual gratification, Merthyr Crown Court docket heard.
He was discovered responsible final month of six costs of sexual assault and three of assault by penetration.
Sentencing him, Decide Vanessa Francis instructed Crump his offending was “breathtakingly dangerous” and the belief positioned in him meant he thought he “might get away with it”.
The offences occurred whereas Crump, from Gilfach in Caerphilly county, was conducting scans and examinations on 10 and 13 August 2021.
The court docket heard each sufferers had attended the hospital in ache and Crump had intimately examined certainly one of them unnecessarily and assaulted each of them.
One sufferer revealed she had tried to take her life thrice and described how her life had felt like a “nightmare” ever since.
In a sufferer influence assertion learn to the court docket, she mentioned: “I simply needed my life to be over, so I did not must relive what was in my head, of what Ieuan did to me.
“I really feel very uncomfortable when I’m handled by anybody within the medical career, as I now belief no-one, least of all medics.
“I’ve been residing in a nightmare… I really feel like I am a shell of the individual that I was.”
The court docket heard the girl had solely managed to go away the home thrice for the reason that assaults and will not work in her earlier career.
‘Manipulated susceptible girls’
The opposite sufferer mentioned she had been recognized with PTSD and Crump’s actions had made her “untrusting” of males.
“It has made me suppose that, if a healthcare employee can commit such an act, then any man is a risk,” she mentioned in her sufferer influence assertion.
“I don’t need to be handled by the NHS or return to the Grange.”
Decide Francis mentioned Crump appeared to have been somebody who was “socially remoted” and “maybe a little bit socially awkward”, but additionally got here throughout as “extraordinarily assured and boastful.”
Along with the jail sentence, she mentioned he could be placed on the intercourse offenders register for all times, imposed restraining orders on him for each girls and barred him from working with kids and susceptible individuals sooner or later.
She instructed him: “You examined components of each younger girls’s our bodies which weren’t required, you didn’t put on gloves since you needed skin-to-skin contact with every of them.
“There’s a breach of belief on this case which is of probably the most excessive form, you manipulated extraordinarily susceptible girls, in vital quantities of ache.”
Michael Jenkin, of the Crown Prosecution Service, mentioned: “Ieuan Crump exploited his place of energy over two girls after they have been at their most susceptible, for his personal sexual gratification.”
