Eldhose Yohannan admitted the offences, which involved touching a teenage girl's bare breasts and a woman's vagina area outside her clothing
A healthcare worker who sexually assaulted a teenage girl and a woman while taking blood samples in a Midlands hospital emergency department has been spared jail.
Judge Johnson also obtained reports from the Probation Service and his counselling to address his risk of reoffending. He directed that the money brought to court go to the victims, with €8,000 going to the younger complainant. Detective Garda Hynes said the girl lay on a bed, and Yohannan, who has no prior convictions, explained that he was going to draw blood from her arm to do tests. He asked her if she had an abscess, but she told him it was on the inside.
She pulled down her top and left, and her mother immediately noticed a "confused look on her face". Her daughter told her what happened, and they informed a nurse. A staff manager spoke to the accused and told him his only role was to take blood and not to carry out examinations, and he should only have touched patients' hands or elbows.
The court heard as she lay down, he put his "pinky" finger on her vagina outside her clothing with enough pressure for her to realise it was not inadvertent. It lasted a minute to 90 seconds but felt like forever to the woman.
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