A medical assistant at a Massachusetts Normal Hospital facility is accused of assaulting a affected person, in line with the Suffolk DA’s workplace.
Leonardo Hernandez, 29, has been charged with indecent assault and battery after allegedly conducting an unauthorized examination on a affected person.
Boston police on April 12 took a report concerning an incident at Mass Normal Dermatology.
The alleged feminine sufferer instructed police that she had gone to the unit a number of weeks earlier than to hunt medical consideration. When her physician left the room, a person knocked on her door and entered the examination room. The alleged sufferer acknowledged the person from earlier appointments.
The person, later recognized as Hernandez, requested her if she want to have a pores and skin examination attributable to a potential situation on her foot. She reportedly stated if the examination was vital, then she want to have it. She hadn’t been knowledgeable of a further examination, however assumed the physician had requested it.
Hernandez gave her a hospital robe and left the room closing the door behind him. Hernandez then shortly re-entered the room earlier than the sufferer had the chance to take away her garments, the DA’s workplace stated. He remained within the room as she took off her denims and started analyzing her.
“The victim said Hernandez went down to the floor and started touching her right leg, running the tips of his fingers up her leg,” the DA’s workplace stated in a press release. “Hernandez then raised her undergarment exposing her buttocks and repeated this on the left side.
“Hernandez advised the victim he was conducting a normal exam and that he would need to check her abdomen with both hands,” the workplace added. “Hernandez then requested to see the victim’s breast. The victim declined. Hernandez requested approximately four times to see the victim’s breast before attempting to pull down the victim’s hospital gown. Upon the victim’s repeated refusals Hernandez left the examination room.”
The subsequent day, the sufferer contacted her physician to ask if she had ordered any follow-up exams. The physician instructed the sufferer that she hadn’t, and that any such examination shouldn’t be inside Hernandez’s job description.
“I commend this victim for speaking up when she determined that this situation was just not right,” Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden stated. “All patients are entitled to safe and ethical treatment during their medical appointments. Anyone jeopardizing a patient’s safety or abusing and exceeding their professional responsibilities will be held accountable.”
Hernandez, of Jamaica Plain, was arraigned on one rely of indecent assault and battery on an individual over 14.
He was launched on private recognizance, and ordered to steer clear of the situation of the alleged offense. He’s due again in court docket on July 24 for a pre-trial listening to
