“When I returned with her dad two hours later, she’d been moved into a side room. It was clear the drugs were still in her system and were making her hallucinate.
‘Look at those disco lights, Mum!’ she said, pointing to the ceiling. But it was what she said next that totally shocked me. ‘Mum, a nurse touched me!’ she said, her face deadly serious. ‘He raped me, Mum!’
Amy was out of it. Not for one moment did I think this had really happened.
“When a male nurse came in to check on her, she started screaming, “Mum, don’t let him near me! He shouldn’t be in here! He’s raped me!”
The male Filipino nurse reportedly didn’t take any notice and was the epitome of professionalism.
Amy was discharged but as the weeks passed her mental health continued to worsen and was eventually diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and her condition was deemed so serious they had to section her.
“During one of her stays in December 2007, I picked up the paper to see the front page headline. “NURSE RAPED PATIENT, JURY TOLD.” A male nurse was on trial accused of raping a vulnerable teenage girl, who had taken an overdose, in the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
“I took one look at the mug shot of the nurse and felt sick to the pit of my stomach. It was the same nurse who had ‘looked after’ Amy. The same one Amy had accused of raping her.
“I felt ill as I read how it was alleged that father-of-two Oliver Balicao had raped a 16-year-old girl in the same A&E department where Amy had been taken. The jury acquitted Balicao of rape, but he was sentenced to 16 months in jail for sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.
“He was also placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register and banned from working with children under 16. The similarities were glaringly obvious. Amy had been telling the truth.”
Source – Mirror
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