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Courtesy Flush

(4,558 posts)
Wed Dec 11, 2013, 02:40 PM Dec 2013

Utah nurse accused of nightmarish rape of immobilized patient

Source: rawstory.com



According to the patient, she checked into UBMC for a surgical procedure and was staying overnight to recover. The nurse, who she later identified as Shumway, gave her a dose of medication and then laid her hand on the button for her morphine pump, activating it. She said that she had stopped using the pump earlier in the night because the medication made her feel nauseated.

The nurse reportedly sexually abused her, then left the room, then returned four more times. On his last visit, he brandished a hypodermic syringe at her and said that he could send her into cardiac arrest, she said, and warned her to keep her mouth shut because he knew where she lives.



Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/11/utah-nurse-accused-of-nightmarish-rape-of-immobilized-patient/

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Utah nurse accused of nightmarish rape of immobilized patient (Original Post) Courtesy Flush Dec 2013 OP
What an interesting man! I bet he gets flooded with date requests after this! AAO Dec 2013 #1
if true, he should be drawn and quartered. nt Deep13 Dec 2013 #2
I see you lean towards clemency. Ikonoklast Dec 2013 #4
"Your name is 'Buck', right?" Feral Child Dec 2013 #8
"after that, he kinda developed a speech impediment" dionysus Dec 2013 #9
"the Marsellus Wallace solution." LOL! great phrase to have coined. maddiemom Dec 2013 #19
Vile piece of garbage. Sickening. callous taoboy Dec 2013 #3
jesus what a monster, it sickens me to see what women have to go thru leftyohiolib Dec 2013 #5
Ever notice . . . Brigid Dec 2013 #6
Sadly, this has always been the case. ManiacJoe Dec 2013 #7
I do think it's more the case now, athenasatanjesus Dec 2013 #10
bet this was not his first bad act. pansypoo53219 Dec 2013 #11
Just when you think that Tarrantino scenarios are too fantastic. nt MrScorpio Dec 2013 #12
When he is sentenced MissDeeds Dec 2013 #13
Nobody will respect his behavior libodem Dec 2013 #15
Very noble of you MissDeeds Dec 2013 #16
Hope you are not advocating prison rape libodem Dec 2013 #17
Castration, and I dont mean chemical reddread Dec 2013 #18
Monsterous is right libodem Dec 2013 #14
These things are hard to absorb. Extremely foreign. BlueJazz Dec 2013 #20

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
4. I see you lean towards clemency.
Wed Dec 11, 2013, 03:33 PM
Dec 2013

I favor the "Marsellus Wallace" solution, myself.


Still keeps it within the medieval jist of things.


There are monsters that walk among us.

They wear human suits, but are not really even remotely human in any way except appearance.

Feral Child

(2,086 posts)
8. "Your name is 'Buck', right?"
Wed Dec 11, 2013, 04:16 PM
Dec 2013

I hope he's extremely frightened right now, thinking about the consequences of his actions.

I also hope the fear doesn't get him off....

Brigid

(17,621 posts)
6. Ever notice . . .
Wed Dec 11, 2013, 03:37 PM
Dec 2013

That these days anyone who is helpless in any way, even temporarily, is seen as prey to some in this decaying society?

athenasatanjesus

(859 posts)
10. I do think it's more the case now,
Wed Dec 11, 2013, 04:53 PM
Dec 2013

due to the mentality people have nowadays that if you're vunerable,anything that happens too you is your own fault no matter what.

 

MissDeeds

(7,499 posts)
13. When he is sentenced
Wed Dec 11, 2013, 05:40 PM
Dec 2013

and I hope he is, and for a very, very long time, I hope the prison population knows the details of his crime. He will have to endure the pain, terror, and helplessness his victim endured.

libodem

(19,288 posts)
15. Nobody will respect his behavior
Wed Dec 11, 2013, 05:48 PM
Dec 2013

But he should not be subjected to unsafe practices. The guy is warped and likely un-rehabilitatable, but he still deserves to serve his time unmolested. Two wrongs do not make a right.

libodem

(19,288 posts)
17. Hope you are not advocating prison rape
Wed Dec 11, 2013, 06:20 PM
Dec 2013

My boyfriend's 30 year old intellectually impaired, son has full blown AIDS from prison rape.

Prisons contract out the healthcare in prison to private services whose primary objective is profit not treatment or prevention. The hepatitis epidemic on the inside stands to eventuality impact the rest of the population.

I've done a lot of institutional care. My foremost duty was always to protect my clients, residents, and patients from abuse. I think jails and prisons and gitmo or anyplace where people are involuntarily committed, are responsible to protect inmates who can't escape confinement.

Torturing is just wrong. It makes the torturing creature a monster.

Hate me if you must.

 

reddread

(6,896 posts)
18. Castration, and I dont mean chemical
Wed Dec 11, 2013, 06:21 PM
Dec 2013

I am adamantly opposed to the death penalty.
I certainly dont agree with the idea it serves as a disincentive.
But, for rape (let's say, with special circumstances, like under color of authority, serial acts, or things like this particular case, providing the evidence bears out the allegations) not only should the perpetrator face the stiff sentence of castration and hard time, I think that being a possibility would be a genuine deterrent. Something I am more than willing to see tested.

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