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A male Ghanaian nurse, Ernest Green has been arrested for allegedly raping an Italian patient who was admitted to the Damongo Government Hospital in the Northern Region.
Report says he gave the victim an overdosed medication before he had an unprotected sex with her on Friday dawn, few hours after she was admitted to the hospital on Thursday midnight.
The suspected was arrested by the Damongo Police on Sunday after a report was filed by the recuperating victim.
“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 agreed”, 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 bed”.
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.
The victim added that she was too weak to resist or respond to the assault.
Ernest Green is now in the custody of the regional office of the Criminal Investigation Department for further probe.Meanwhile, the condition of the foreign national is yet to be known.
