A nurse in Migori County has been accused of sedating and raping a female co-worker at his workstation.
According to the Standard, the officer in charge of a dispensary in Kanyamkago, Uriri sub-county used a sedative to inject an NGO counsellor posted at the hospital before raping her.
The victim said that the nurse had invited her to his house for a 10pm injection only to take advantage of her ignorance and commit the crime.
“On Thursday afternoon, when the chest pains got worse and my cough persisted, he injected me and told me the next injection would be after 10 hours,’’ she said. That, according to the nurse, would be 10pm.
She said that when she regained consciousness, she realised that she had been raped.
“When I woke up at around 11.30pm, my bra was unhooked and my panties were on my feet. I asked why he had forced himself on me and he said it was no big deal,” she said
The counsellor later locked the nurse in the house using a padlock and screamed for help from neighbours.
“I screamed for help and people came. He was arrested and taken to Uriri police station,” she said.
The facility’s chairman Philip Ododa has confirmed the incident and refuted claims by the male nurse that the victim was insane.
“I got a call at around midnight and when I got to the facility, I found a crowd in the compound. A woman was crying, saying she had been raped,” Ododa said.
The incidence was filed under OB number OB\4\16\09\16 at 8.24am.