An Arlington, Virginia technician is behind bars after raping a hospital patient.
According to FOX News, 30-year-old Roy Anthony Jones was arrested and charged with rape after he treated a woman in the ER. Police say the incident occurred in January after the unidentified woman was admitted to the Virginia Hospital Center.
A 37-year-old woman reported the rape happened in the early morning hours of January 13. She says she was being treated in the emergency room, and as part of that treatment, had gone to the hospital’s imaging center.
She says she was alone and that the CT scan technician, identified as Jones, forced himself on her and raped her.
Police say the victim went back down to the emergency room and told staffers she had been sexually assaulted. Someone called police.
Police say the delay in the arrest was due to officials collecting Jones’ DNA to connect him to the crime. Police Chief Daniel Murray told reporters he was shocked by the incident, since it occurred in a place patients are supposed to feel safe and secure in.
The problem is something could happen to anybody almost anywhere, so one always has to exude caution,” says Deputy Police Chief Daniel Murray. “But I’m extremely sympathetic to a patient trying to be in a place where they’re seeking treatment, where they’re seeking care, and then to have something tragically like this happen to them.”
Jones was terminated from his position and is being held in an Arlington, Virginia jail without bond.
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