Hospital worker accused of making sexual advances to women
Published 11:07 pm Monday, January 26, 2009
MONROE — The women were waiting to see doctors in a Monroe emergency room when it happened.
Two women, now 34 and 54, reported that the man who came to draw blood in late winter 2007 made sexual advances in the hospital, according to charging papers filed Monday in Snohomish County Superior Court.
The man is accused of calling the women at their homes later and making more sexual advances, the court papers said.
The Snohomish man, 37, was working at Valley General Hospital. He was helping to treat a woman on March 2, 2007, when he reached under her gown, felt her breasts and said, “Not bad,” the court papers allege.
“Don’t worry, I’ll take care of you,” prosecutors allege the man said.
About two months later, the man was assigned to draw blood from a different woman. Prosecutors accuse him of making sexual advances and asking the woman if she liked “well endowed” men.
He placed the woman’s hand on his penis, the court papers said.
The man is accused of calling both women at their homes after their release from the hospital and making additional advances. He is alleged to have offered to give one woman a massage and tried to have sexual conversations with the other woman.
It’s not the first time the man has gotten in trouble for inappropriate sexual acts, the court papers said.
Everett police in 2002 investigated the man on allegations that he grabbed a patient’s breasts while drawing blood at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett.
The man was charged Monday with attempted indecent liberties, a felony.
Reporter Jackson Holtz: 425-339-3437 or jholtz@heraldnet.com
