LA Times Probe Finds Nurses' Criminal Records Ignored
Tracy Webber and Charles Ornstein, Los Angeles Times
November 1, 2008
LOS ANGELES -- In March 2006, a Long Beach hospital put state licensing authorities on notice: Two patients had accused a nurse of molesting them on a single night. One said that he massaged her breasts, the other that he groped her under her hospital gown, according to hospital and court records.
By year's end, licensed vocational nurse Carlito Paar Manabat Jr. had pleaded no contest to two counts of sexual battery. He went on to serve six months in jail and register as a sex offender.
Last February, he renewed his license, checking "yes" on the application when asked if he'd been convicted of a crime.
It wasn't until July, more than two years after first being alerted to the problem, that the California Bureau of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians took the first formal steps to revoke or restrict Manabat's license.
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SOURCE: LA Times
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