Hospital worker performed oral sex on sedated patient

BY DAVID OVALLE, dovalle@MiamiHerald.com

A Mount Sinai Medical Center employee surrendered Wednesday after police say he performed oral sex on a male patient who was just waking up from anesthesia following surgery.

Pedro J. Gonzalez, 27, of Hialeah, confessed and was charged with sexual battery, Miami Beach police said.

Gonzalez, whose job is to transport patients within the hospital, was immediately fired after the April 30 incident.

The 31-year-old patient had gone to Mount Sinai, 4300 Alton Rd., on April 30 for surgery. Gonzalez wheeled the patient from a recovery room to a standard room and helped him on the bed.

According to a police report, ''he began to perform oral sex'' on the patient, who pushed him away. The patient later told detectives that ``even though he was coming off the effects of the anesthesia, he can ID [the suspect] and was aware of the act.''

The police report said Gonzalez came back to the room twice to ''check on'' him.

After a nurse ignored his complaint, the patient called Miami Beach police, according to a report.

''Even an isolated incident is unacceptable. We worked very closely with the Miami Beach Police on this matter, and will continue to assist the authorities until a proper resolution is achieved,'' spokeswoman Pamela Gadinsky said in a statement.

``The safety and security of our patients, staff and visitors is paramount.''

Comments

[Jim Howard]

I worked as a hospital security officer from 1972 to 2000. It was in Kansas City (MO). I did work about a year at an Orlando (FL) area hospital.
Something like this happening is very rare. In fact I never heard of an employee doing something like this in my 30 years.
Hospitals need to be safe and secure places. We should not have to worry about something like this taking place. Hell, we have to worry now about getting the wrong medication or getting an infection. We do not need a new worry.
I hope that FL hospitals have good security. I only worked at the one FL hospital and I could not believe that any hospital could keep their doors open with such poor security. I do not know if that is normal for FL.
I know in Kansas City we had very professional security. Of course something like this event is hard for security to prevent.
The last hospital that I worked at in Kansas City we did police checks on all employees before they were hired. We also ran checks each year on all nurses through their state agency to find problems.
Of course all systems fail. I worked at one hospital and we did back ground police checks on all employees but some VIP with the hospital wanted to help agency get a guy a job and so a guy was hired with out us doing a background check on the subject. I was asking other officers what is with this guy. He looks like he hates security. I asked have we ticketed the guy or anything. Officers said no. Later he was arrested as he left the hospital. He was going out, sometimes on his lunch hour, and doing holding up places and he never left anyone alive when he held the place up.
After the guy was arrested we heard that the hospital did not let us run him in the police computer and did not tell us about his long arrest record because they did not want us to pick on him.
We all need to be alert when we are in the hospital. I guess we got one more thing to worry about now.

[miami men]

Amazing... such a violation of trust and personal space... but you know,,, i want to know why it was so irresistible??? size, shape, uncut? was he hard as a side effect from the anesthesia??? tell all girl.

[Wikipedia Alternative]

A complete violation of personal space. I hope that the culprit gets booked properly and not let off easily.

[Tike]

I am starting to wonder if was a violation or maybe a consentual act changed onto attack once the wife got involved. I found very hard to digest the whole story the way it is being presented. It seems to me there is much more to it than it meets the eye. This woulnd't be the first time some half closeted guy gets a taste of it and in a denial frenzie goes on accusing everyone around, the nurse ignored his complaint? that's the comment that trigger my doubt. Something else occurred here. Also, patients from stay on recovery room in order to wake up from anesthesia, he couldn't have been that far under while telling a transport guy about his belly aching. I guess I've made my point, something smells rotten in Denmark.

[GaysAreSick]

Tike,

You are a complete moron. Someone like you shouldn't be allowed to live and breathe the same air as the rest of normal society. If that were me, he wouldn't be alive to admit to anything. Just like a bug, gays like this should be stomped out of existence.