NHS worker jailed after sexually assaulting patients in fake examinations
An NHS worker has been jailed for nine years after sexually assaulting patients in phoney ‘medical examiniations’
Ieuan Crump, 26, assaulted the two women while he was working at the Grange Hospital in Cwmbran.
Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard he carried out fake and ‘entirely unnecessary’ examinations for his own sexual gratification.
Crump, of Gilfach, Caerphilly, denied the allegations, but a jury found him guilty of nine counts of sexual assault, including three counts of assault by penetration.
The offences happened while Crump was conducting scans and examinations as part of his role as a healthcare support worker in August 2021.
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In a victim’s personal statement read to the court, one woman described how her life has felt like a ‘nightmare’ since the assault.
She said: ‘The main emotional effect of the sexual assaults has been the negative effect on my mental health.
‘I felt there was no way to escape the intrusive thoughts of what he did to me, which led me to try to take my life on three occasions.
‘I just wanted my life to be over, so I didn’t have to relive what was in my head, of what Ieuan did to me. I feel very uncomfortable when I am treated by anyone in the medical profession, as I now trust no one, least of all medics.
‘I have been living in a nightmare since this time… I feel like I’m a shell of the person that I used to be.’
Another woman said Crump’s actions had made her ‘untrusting’ of men.
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She said: ‘It has made me think that, if a healthcare worker can commit such an act, then any man is a threat. I do not want to be treated by the NHS or go back to the Grange.’
Addressing Crump, Judge Vanessa Francis said: ‘You are someone who has effectively given your life to healthcare services… Who was dedicated and seemed to have your whole future ahead.
‘The fact of the matter was that you were also someone who was quite socially isolated, someone who perhaps found it difficult to fit in with others, and someone who displayed a certain amount of arrogance.
‘Both young women involved in the treatment that you meted out have been utterly devastated by what you did to them.’
The judge said he examined both young women’s bodies, which wasn’t required, and didn’t wear gloves because he wanted ‘skin-to-skin’ contact.
‘There is a breach of trust in this case, which is of the most extreme kind; you manipulated extremely vulnerable women, in significant amounts of pain,’ she added.
Judge Francis sentenced Crump to nine years in prison and said he would be barred from working with children and vulnerable people in the future.
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