Germany: Woman sexually abused by Syrian in hospital after leg amputation

The surgery was well completed, but the horror came afterwards: Abuse in the hospital bed – that’s what two female patients reported.

The Syrian Zakwan A. (43) has been on trial at the Hamburg-Mitte district court since Tuesday. He worked at the University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE, photo) in the food service and allegedly sexually abused two female patients (52, 53) there.

Both women had just undergone surgery, could hardly walk, and the older woman’s leg had been amputated.

“My client is initially defending himself in silence,” the defence lawyer explained. In other words: wait and see what the witnesses can remember at all three years after the crime.

This tactic did not work for the first witness, Yvonne R. (52). She still feels the hands of the accused on her body:

“I was paralysed. I couldn’t react because I was so shocked.” She could only turn her head to the side when A. tried to kiss her, at the same moment his hand slipped between her bandaged thighs.

The nurses then believed that Patient R. had suffered a stroke – because she could no longer speak! An abuse trauma, which she thought she had overcome after years of therapy, had reappeared.

To this day, Yvonne R. has speech disorders, hardly ever leaves her flat out of fear. “I had just rebuilt my life well and now I am completely thrown back.”

She used WhatsApp to tell another patient what had happened to her. The reaction was shocking. Yvonne R.: “She started crying and said: ‘If I had been braver, you would have been spared this’.” Because she had also been abused by Zakwan A..

This woman is Ulrike H., she is supposed to testify on Tuesday.

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