Former long-term care nurse pleads not guilty on sexual abuse, sodomy charges
A Wellington man was released from the Calhoun County Jail on bond Wednesday after being charged in July with two counts of sodomy and one count of sexual abuse of an Anniston man.
The 49-year-old man was indicted by a Calhoun County grand jury July 6 on those charges, alleged crimes that occurred on March 3, according to court records. The man entered a plea of not guilty on Thursday, according to those records.
The man pleaded guilty in November 2011 to harassment charges after having been indicted on charges of sodomy of a sedated patient at Noland Hospital, a long-term care facility on the fourth floor of Regional Medical Center, according to court records. The man was then working as a nurse for Noland, according to those records.
A 2011 civil suit against the man and Noland Hospitals alleges that on May 30, 2008, he took a patient who was sedated on medication from his bed into another room where he “committed sodomy and sexual battery” on the patient.
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