Worker's 'cruel sex act' on OAP
Tuesday, 1 July 2008 17:44 UK
A care worker begged a colleague to lie for him after he sexually assaulted an elderly dementia patient at a home in Powys, Cardiff Crown Court has heard.
Gareth Jones, 22, is accused of a "shocking, pitiless" attack on the 77-year-old when he took her to get ready for bed at Mountain's Home at Libanus.
But the court heard he was forced to raise the alarm when the woman started bleeding as a result of her injuries.
Mr Jones denies sexual activity and alternative wounding charges.
The trial heard how the elderly woman needed emergency surgery to save her life.
Mr Jones was supposed to be paired with a female colleague on the night of the alleged attack. "She was subjected to a shocking, pitiless sexual assault by Jones which left her with painful and harrowing injuries.
Ieuan Morris, prosecuting
Senior care assistant at the nursing home near Brecon, Rebecca Morante, told the jury Mr Jones asked her to lie to the police.
He asked her to say he had worked alongside the woman at all times that night but she refused, Mrs Morante said.
"He was begging us not to tell them," she said.
"We said we were sorry but we couldn't lie for him. I'd told him many times before that he should not work alone."
Mrs Morante found Mr Jones in the patient's room after she responded to an emergency alarm.
Ieuan Morris, prosecuting, said Mr Jones had inflicted her injury in a "cruel and deplorable sexual or sadistic act" in February 2007.
"Had she not undergone emergency treatment at hospital she could well have died because she lost so much blood," Mr Morris added.
"She was subjected to a shocking, pitiless sexual assault by Jones which left her with painful and harrowing injuries."
Nursing guidelines recommend carers work in pairs but Mr Jones was working alone on the night of the attack, the jury heard.
Mr Jones, from Trecastle near Brecon, started off as a kitchen assistant before gaining promotion to the carer role two years earlier.
Mr Morris told the trial nine days after the alleged attack checks were carried out at the home.
He said: "It was established there existed a high standard of care at the nursing home and there were no grounds for concerns from the observations."
Mr Jones denies sexual activity, wounding with intent and unlawful wounding and the trial continues.
SOURCE: BBC News
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1 comment:
I used to live in Brecon which is a fairly small town and I know Gareth Jones through fellow residents. He has always appeared to not be of a normal mental state, I remember one particular incident where he shouted racist abuse at an Italian man and encouraged others to do so, then seconds later appologising to everyone. He clearly should not have been employed as a carer full stop as it is clear to those that have witnessed his every day demeanour that he is not stable to work in a care based environment.
Hopefully Libanus care home will pay closer attention to who they employ in future.
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