Victim of a rape, a woman plunged into a coma for more than 14 years gave birth on Saturday December 29 to a little boy. All male hospital staff are suspected.
The story, which takes place in a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, is worthy of Almodovar’s darkest films. According to the revelations of NBC, a woman in a coma for more than 14 years gave birth to a baby boy on Saturday December 29. Raped in her hospital room, the victim gave birth in the most total incomprehension of the nursing staff, because no warning sign suggested a pregnancy.
“Nobody knew she was pregnant”
“How can this happen? I’m angry, sad, and it makes me sick,” said a nurse, who took care of the unconscious victim during her delivery. “In the staff, nobody was aware that she was pregnant until very shortly before the delivery,” she adds. The patient had moaned part of the morning.
An investigation was opened to determine the person responsible for the rape, and therefore the father of the child. Following the interrogation of all the staff, no suspect has been arrested for the moment. As the victim requires a lot of care, at any time of the day, a multitude of people can be involved.
A new regulation
“We are trying to understand how such a thing could have happened and are reviewing our methods and protocols so that it does not happen again,” the hospital said in a statement, speaking of an “unprecedented case”. A new regulation has been adopted: each male employee must now be accompanied by a colleague to enter a patient’s room.
However, this is not the first time that this kind of tragedy has occurred. In 2014, for example, an American couple discovered thata nurse had raped their daughter several times while she was in a coma. The perpetrator was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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