Kudabo, 47, was convicted on two counts of s*xual ass#ult at York Crown Court on Tuesday, after pleading guilty to the offences.
The court heard that the victim, who was almost entirely immobile due to a serious medical condition, was ass#ulted twice while in her hospital bed.
Prosecutor Henry Fernandez told the court that the first incident occurred after Kudabo gave the patient a bed bath and leaned over to k*ss her on the lips. Despite her attempts to turn away, she was unable to resist due to her condition.
A few days later, Kudabo returned to offer another bed bath, which the woman declined. He then k*ssed her again while she lay helplessly.
She was in a lot of pain and almost completely dependent on others for her care. Fernandez said.
The incidents took place nine months after Kudabo arrived in the UK from Nigeria. At the time, he was employed as a healthcare assistant at York Hospital and living in the South Bank area of the city.
When questioned by police, Kudabo claimed he kissed the woman on the forehead, not the lips, and said his actions were intended as a gesture of sympathy. He told officers it was “in keeping with his job.”
In a victim impact statement read in court, the woman described ongoing trauma since the incidents. She said she had experienced “helplessness, fear and loss of trust,” along with depression, anxiety, and recurring flashbacks.
Kudabo’s defence counsel, Jerry Sodipe, said the defendant accepted that his behaviour was “inappropriate” but highlighted his previously unblemished record.
Sentencing him, Judge Alex Menary said, “You abused the trust placed in you as a carer. She was particularly vulnerable immobile and dependent on you for her care. I am satisfied the kiss was on the lips, not the forehead. What you did has had a profound impact on the victim’s life.”
The judge added that the nature of the offence required an immediate custodial sentence “to mark the seriousness of what you did to someone in your care.”
Kudabo will serve half of his 12-month sentence in custody and the remainder on licence. He has also been placed on the s*x offenders register for 10 years.
The Guardian
The court heard that the victim, who was almost entirely immobile due to a serious medical condition, was ass#ulted twice while in her hospital bed.
Prosecutor Henry Fernandez told the court that the first incident occurred after Kudabo gave the patient a bed bath and leaned over to k*ss her on the lips. Despite her attempts to turn away, she was unable to resist due to her condition.
A few days later, Kudabo returned to offer another bed bath, which the woman declined. He then k*ssed her again while she lay helplessly.
She was in a lot of pain and almost completely dependent on others for her care. Fernandez said.
The incidents took place nine months after Kudabo arrived in the UK from Nigeria. At the time, he was employed as a healthcare assistant at York Hospital and living in the South Bank area of the city.
When questioned by police, Kudabo claimed he kissed the woman on the forehead, not the lips, and said his actions were intended as a gesture of sympathy. He told officers it was “in keeping with his job.”
In a victim impact statement read in court, the woman described ongoing trauma since the incidents. She said she had experienced “helplessness, fear and loss of trust,” along with depression, anxiety, and recurring flashbacks.
Kudabo’s defence counsel, Jerry Sodipe, said the defendant accepted that his behaviour was “inappropriate” but highlighted his previously unblemished record.
Sentencing him, Judge Alex Menary said, “You abused the trust placed in you as a carer. She was particularly vulnerable immobile and dependent on you for her care. I am satisfied the kiss was on the lips, not the forehead. What you did has had a profound impact on the victim’s life.”
The judge added that the nature of the offence required an immediate custodial sentence “to mark the seriousness of what you did to someone in your care.”
Kudabo will serve half of his 12-month sentence in custody and the remainder on licence. He has also been placed on the s*x offenders register for 10 years.
The Guardian
some persons are terrible.
ReplyDeleteKissing her on ber lips? 😡😡😡. Even kissing her on the forehead sef is wrong. She is not your partner.
ReplyDeleteAs in..and he's saying it as if kissing a patient on the forehead is normal!
DeleteThats all they are about, sex and more sex, the curse of the average Nigerian man!
ReplyDeleteI'm telling you. Nothing dey their brain, na s@x.
DeleteDon't you see the ones here? All they ever talk about is s@x or women, except for a few sensible ones.
Your papa , your sons, your brothers, your uncles, your nephews and your pastors are among the men your all mentioned.. Lol
DeleteCarry bad character every where. Do the crime pay the price
ReplyDeleteStupid stupid man, he should just carry his shameless self back to Nigeria once he completes jail term, because he will not smell any other employment or permanent resid ncy with this his dented record.
ReplyDeleteUseless men. They always find a way to stain the country 's name when they have the opportunity to travel outside. He thought he was still in Nigeria where anything goes. They rape women and go Scot free, they beat and abuse women and go Scot free.
ReplyDeleteI pray he is denied any more employment in the health sector, let him go and be cleaning floor and picking garbage or better still let them deport him back home. Eranko .
Amen
DeleteSee how this main ruin his life
ReplyDeleteAfter they will call village people
ReplyDeleteThis one no be devil's hand work..
ReplyDeleteSee the way he used his hands to destroy himself. Useless man.
ReplyDeleteAnimal
ReplyDeleteThey should keep teaching them lessons, the fool thought he was still in Nigeria where everything goes, what most of Nigerian men know is all about sex and women, from the way they talk and act, he should be deported back to Nigeria after his jail term.
ReplyDelete@ Grateful Soul, he shoul come back to Nigeria and contnue his badness ba
DeleteSee how this man landed himself in prison! Does he not have a wife to kiss anywhere he likes at home? 🤦🏾♀️
ReplyDeleteNow you see what Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has been contending with! How much more the average Nigerian woman.
A whole 47 yr old man at that.
ReplyDeleteIf he borrowed money from you to japa you now know it wasn't a good investment.
Self-control is very important. See how this one landed himself in trouble for ordinary kiss. kiss oh.
ReplyDeletei hope he has been kissing young girls before he travelled out of the country. That is how a Kenyan man raped and got a young disabled young girl in his care pregnant. Everyone needs to practice self-control because it is not worth it.
I wish the jail term was longer. This guy shouldn't get off the sex offender registry because if he could go this far as a healthcare worker, What's holding him back?
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