The Mental Health unit of the La Victoria Hospital, located in the town of San Cristóbal, south of Bogotá, was sealed this Wednesday following a series of sexual abuse complaints were released. by a nursing assistant to 17 psychiatric patients, including minors.
According to RCN Radio, on Saturday morning some representatives of the district authorities went to the health center in order to corroborate the situation and interview the alleged victims. Hence it was known, according to the complainant who spoke with the national media, that there were at least 17 women who reported having been touched or abused in a defenseless statesince some of the medications made them remain sedated.
The triggering event would have occurred on Friday night when, according to the story given by one of the alleged victims to the station, “they found one of the nurses in a room with four patientsone of them was immobilized hands and feet.
According to the woman, one of the patients assured that the nursing assistant was performing oral sex on her and, in fact, “when they lifted the blanket, the woman had her underwear under her knees and was more sedated than normal, she might not speak a word,” the complainant told the national media.
Due to the events, the Bogotá councilor for the Colombia Justa Libres party, Emel Rojas, quoted political control debate to the District to answer to the Council for what happened.
“The administration, Dr. Claudia López, the secretary of health, the same manager They have said absolutely nothing regarding the case, which if verified would be really sad and unfortunate “Rojas pointed out through his Twitter account.
The victims filed criminal complaints with the Attorney General’s Office. However, according to what one of the complainants told the national media, “the man was taken to the Restrepo URI and was released due to lack of evidence.”
