Carer Jailed for Sex Attack in Nursing Home (UK)

Carer jailed for OAP sex attack

31 July, 2009

A male carer who carried out a serious sex attack on an infirm 76-year-old woman at a nursing home has been jailed for six years and eight months.

Joseph Sinja was taken on with "absolutely no qualifications", the High Court in Edinburgh heard.

Sinja, 32, admitted the attack on 26 April this year, when he appeared at the High Court in the city earlier.

The distressed victim told an employee that Sinja had "done things her husband wouldn't do".

A judge told the devout Christian: "You were working at the care home at the time of the offence as an agency care assistant."

Lord Kinclaven said: "You were entrusted to provide care to her but instead indecently assaulted her in what was, in effect, her home and had been for many years. You acted in gross breach of trust.

"The emotional and psychological impact of your crime has been considerable.

"There is no alternative to a significant custodial sentence."

He told Sinja, a Kenyan national who was allowed into Britain to study at a private Bible college in Scotland, that he would have jailed him for 10 years for the offence, but for his guilty plea.

The judge also recommended that Sinja should be deported after serving his prison sentence.

Abridged

SOURCE: BBC.CO, UK

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