Sexual assault of a patient in a decade-long vegetative state investigated after giving birth

[Laura]

He doesn't sound very bright. He should have confessed when they came to take his DNA.

 

[Anamarija]

911 call prompts Hacienda Healthcare pregnancy investigation
Nurse "forgot" to mention that the woman who gave birth is an vegetative state.

 

[munaychasumaq]

Thanks Dakota.According to the information in the video the baby get blue during the birth process,just i hope the poor little thing does not have brain damage due to that.

 

[JEEP]

Nathan Sutherland, below, a licensed practical nurse, was recently charged with having sex with a Native American woman who is in a vegetative state when she gave birth to a child which DNA shows he fathered:

Sutherland, a licensed practical nurse who began working at Hacienda Health care in 2012, was charged with one count each of sexual assault and abuse of a vulnerable adult. He was ordered held on $500,000 bail during a brief appearance in Maricopa County Superior Court.
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The woman, who has been disabled since very early childhood as a result of seizures, has spent most of her life in Phoenix’s Hacienda Healthcare.

Though she was initially described as comatose, her parents said in a written statement that although she was disabled she could respond to sound, make facial gestures and had some ability to move her limbs, head and neck.

“The important thing is that she is a beloved daughter, albeit with significant intellectual disabilities,” they said.

The parents declined to comment on Sutherland’s arrest in a separate statement issued through their attorney.

Hacienda employees were not aware that woman was pregnant before she went into labor, police say, and were first alerted to the case when the baby was born. Police then sought DNA samples from all male employees.

The facility said in a written statement that Sutherland was fired as soon as administrators learned of his arrest.

“Before he started work with Hacienda, he underwent extensive background checks, including an extended criminal history search; a search of multiple government registries, including sex offender registries and Arizona Department of Economic Security and Child Protective Services registries; and checks of his personal references,” it said.

The baby, a boy who is being cared for by family members, is doing well, police said.

Nurse charged with rape of disabled Arizona woman who gave birth | Reuters

It sounds as if the victim was fully able to experience the pain of the rape as well as the birth.

Nurse accused of getting patient pregnant was Christian rapper who wanted to inspire youth

In interviews and government documents, Nathan Sutherland painted an inspirational image of himself: an abandoned child who grew up with an empty belly in a Haitian orphanage; a doting dad who wanted to help those who had also been dealt a difficult hand.

His Christian music group, Sleeplessouljaz, rapped inspirational messages in churches and concert halls across the Southwest. He sought to start a transitional home for orphans and homeless youth. When those dreams fizzled, he dove into an industry synonymous with caretaking: He became a nurse.

That image is at odds with the man Phoenix police and prosecutors have presented to the world: the Hacienda HealthCare nurse who sexually assaulted his incapacitated patient and, a few days after Christmas, became the father of her child.
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Sutherland, a licensed practical nurse, was at least partly responsible for the care of the victim, who is 29 and has been a patient at Hacienda since a near-drowning at age 3. Others who worked for Hacienda, including the CEO and the doctors who treated the unnamed patient, have resigned or been suspended as the criminal investigation intensified.

After the baby was born, police sought to collect DNA samples from all the male employees who had access to the patient. Sutherland gave his sample on Tuesday morning, officials said. Hours later, he was in handcuffs.

Before going to work at Hacienda in 2011, Sutherland led a quasi-public life. He and his sister formed Sleeplessouljaz, a Christian rap group. According to a biography, they were inspired by a scripture in the sixth chapter of Ephesians, which speaks of wearing “spiritual armor” to protect yourself against the faith-breaking difficulties of life.
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At one point, he also sought to help youth by founding a Christian-based group home.

According to the articles of incorporation for Life in You Inc., the nonprofit aimed to “show Christ’s unconditional love by responding to the spiritual and physical needs” of youth who were homeless, developmentally disabled, behaviorally challenged or orphaned in Phoenix and Maricopa County.
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Esella Burr told the Associated Press that she lived next to Sutherland, his wife and their four children for a half-decade. She often saw the couple headed to church on Sundays.

“I can’t believe it,” Burr said. “He told me he was a nurse, and he liked his job.”

The couple had been together since 2012 and owned a catering company that specialized in weddings and corporate functions, according to KPHO.

But privately, there was acrimony. His wife filed for divorce seven weeks ago, saying their marriage was broken beyond repair, the news station reported.

It is unclear what prompted Sutherland to go into nursing in the first place, but co-workers remembered a clean-shaven, consummate professional.

A person at Hacienda gave KPHO Sutherland’s most recent planning worksheet, a document that outlined his ambitious goals while at the facility.

He wanted “to attend more AZ state board of nursing meetings and to continue leadership classes,” he wrote. Overall, he wanted to “continue to evolve” in his profession.

He filled that document out in July. At the time, his alleged victim was roughly four months pregnant.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...-wanted-inspire-youth/?utm_term=.9b5b072adfd4

Go figure. Just a case of irresistable opportunity presenting itself and no one will find out?! Wonder what was behind "the marriage broken beyond repair" - perhaps he had confessed to the wife what he had done?

"He fooled everybody": Patients' families speak out on rape suspect

The mother of a patient at a long-term care facility where an incapacitated woman gave birth could hardly believe that a 36-year-old nurse who helped care for her son was the suspect arrested this week.

"He was very loving, very compassionate. Or he pretended to be. And I really trusted him," Angela Gomez said of the suspect, Nathan Sutherland.

She said never in her "wildest dreams" did she think Sutherland would be the suspect authorities were looking for.

"I suspected others, but I was wrong, and he fooled everybody," Gomez said, CBS affiliate KPHO-TV reported.
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Hacienda sent a letter to patients' families following the incident saying patients are entitled to free STD and pregnancy tests. Gomez, whose 27-year-old son was cared for by Sutherland at times, went to the facility Wednesday to get her son tested.

She said Sutherland worked the night shift and that she wasn't sure about the extent of contact he had with her son, KPHO-TV reported.

"He's afraid. Not all the time but every once in a while, and he's expressed that," Gomez said about her son. "We've asked him why and he's said he's afraid of the monster, is what he says. And I've said, 'What's the monster's name?' but my son never says the name of the person he's afraid of."

Gomez is concerned there may be other victims at the facility.

Karina Cesena, another parent, moved her daughter from the Hacienda facility after she found out about the woman who gave birth. She said nothing about Sutherland's demeanor stood out.

"He fooled everybody": Patients' families speak out on rape suspect

Tip of the iceberg?

 

[angelburst29]

Nathan Sutherland, below, a licensed practical nurse, was recently charged with having sex with a Native American woman who is in a vegetative state when she gave birth to a child which DNA shows he fathered:

As odd as this might sound, I don't think Nathan Sutherland is the Father of that Baby? DNA results can be screwed - just like any other testing or the true results "tampered with".

Sometimes, actions speak louder then words - my guess - the CEO Bill Timmons, who was the first to quit during the on-set of the investigation, is more likely the suspect they are really looking for and "the two Doctor's on Staff" who quit right after the DNA was collected., were acting as cover? It might be "highly likely" that these Doctor's were involved in the DNA collection - did a switch-er-roo and they targeted someone on Staff - who is least likely to be able to defend himself?

The CEO of the Hacienda Healthcare facility, Bill Timmons has quit.

At the time, this CEO " upped an quit" no fingers were pointing at him. Then, two Doctor's on Staff decide to walk after DNA testing?
The Doctor's were probably trying to cover up the pregnancy all along, thinking that when the Baby was born, they could handle it - in house - probably put the Baby up for adoption through one of their other State Agencies but the plan fell through during the difficult delivery and the Baby was going into defib and one of the so-called- nurses/attendants called 911 in panic? Once, an outside Agency was involved - the CEO hit the door - running?

 

[mrtn]

It might be "highly likely" that these Doctor's were involved in the DNA collection - did a switch-er-roo and they targeted someone on Staff - who is least likely to be able to defend himself?

Maybe something like this is possible, but how could the investigation rely on samples taken by someone from the suspect pool?

 

[nature]

As odd as this might sound, I don't think Nathan Sutherland is the Father of that Baby? DNA results can be screwed - just like any other testing or the true results "tampered with".

Sometimes, actions speak louder then words - my guess - the CEO Bill Timmons, who was the first to quit during the on-set of the investigation, is more likely the suspect they are really looking for and "the two Doctor's on Staff" who quit right after the DNA was collected., were acting as cover? It might be "highly likely" that these Doctor's were involved in the DNA collection - did a switch-er-roo and they targeted someone on Staff - who is least likely to be able to defend himself?

I had the same reflexion.
I feel bad chills at the possibility that this newborn is not the first case in this hacienda. Baby traficking under this awful story?

Maybe something like this is possible, but how could the investigation rely on samples taken by someone from the suspect pool?

I see several hypothesis:
1. the doctors or the CEO, due to their hierarchical position, can access the samples and put the etiquette of someone else on their own testing tube?
2. there is a child trafiking and sexual abuses coverings, something that musn't be known, so persons at the top (police top, DNA testing laboratory, justice, etc) cover the real responsibles.
2. the nurse Sutherland is the real father, and the CEO and doctors who escaped were abusing the poor woman too (and probably other disabled young patients) and they feared that the tests could come positive for them.

My thoughts to these highly vulnerable young people. Professionnals who had the duty to protect them, to affectionnate them, are at the contrary profiting from this very vulnerability and abuse them. Vomitive!

 

[JEEP]

As odd as this might sound, I don't think Nathan Sutherland is the Father of that Baby? DNA results can be screwed - just like any other testing or the true results "tampered with".

“From the minute we first became aware of this crime, a sexual assault, we have worked virtually non-stop every day, every night, seven days a week trying to solve and resolve this case,” Police Chief Jeri Williams told a news conference.

Williams said the case, which has made international headlines, was solved through a combination of DNA and “good old fashioned police work.”
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The Arizona Republic newspaper reported that attorney Dave Gregan said during the hearing that there was no direct evidence against his client, who had no criminal history, and that the defense planned to conduct its own DNA tests.

Nurse charged with rape of disabled Arizona woman who gave birth | Reuters

So, not exactly case closed.