RAPE AT HOSPITAL...Court remands 31-year-old nurse (LEAD STORY)

A 31-year-old male nurse at the Volta River Authority (VRA) Hospital at Aboadze, near Sekondi, has been arrested for allegedly drugging and raping an 18-year-old student patient who was on admission at the hospital.
The suspect, Justice A. Cadigah, was said to have injected the victim with a sleep-inducing drug before embarking on the sexual act.
After the injection, the victim was said to have become weak and Cadigah reportedly took advantage of that to have sex with her on an isolated bed in the ward.
Fearing that the girl might get pregnant after the act, Cadigah is said to have visited her at school after her discharge and attempted to offer her medicine to avert any possible pregnancy.
The victim told the police that she had a serious stomach upset about 9.00 p.m. on July 4, 2008 and her father took her to the hospital where Cadigah was the nurse on night duty.
“He told my father that I should be admitted so that he could take a closer look at the situation. I was vomiting and he gave me an injection. After that I became weak and he asked me to go and wash myself in the bathroom,” she told the police.
She further stated that while in the bathroom, the nurse joined her there and started fondling her breasts but she protested and he later helped her to her bed.
“He then came to my bed and slept on me. I was so weak and could only tell him to stop. He left and came back later,” she said.
“That time he forcibly had sex with me and then left me in the bed. The next day, he came to ask if I loved him and gave me a number to call him anytime. I was so embarrassed and shy to tell my father about it. My mother had also travelled out of town,” she said.
She said she told her friend about her ordeal after her discharge from the hospital and the friend advised her to report the issue to her mother’s friend, which she did.
The victim said after informing her, her mother’s friend took her to her father.
“We then called the number the nurse had given me and I told him, in the presence of my father, that I was in pain because of the act and that it was likely I could get pregnant,” the girl said.
She said Cadigah then promised her medicine to ease the pain and asked her to meet him at her school.
Her father then proceeded to the police station in Sekondi to report the matter to the police.
At the appointed time, the nurse drove to the school and in the process of giving the victim the medication, he was arrested.
Cadigah was yesterday remanded by the Sekondi Circuit to enable the police to conduct further investigations.