Prosecutors: N.J. Hospital Patient Care Technician Charged With Molesting Patient
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) -- A New Jersey hospital worker has been charged with sexually assaulting a female patient, prosecutors said Thursday.
Richard Smith, 40, of Princeton – who works at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro – was charged Tuesday with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, and criminal sexual contact, according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor's office.
Smith, who worked as a patient care technician, was being held in jail on $200,000 bail late Thursday, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors and Plainsboro police alleged that Smith lifted the hospital gown of a 25-year-old woman who was a patient at the medical facility, and touched her inappropriately, prosecutors said.
Hospital officials called police after being notified, prosecutors said.
Smith began working at the hospital this past May. Before that, he worked at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Hamilton, and earlier, at a private medical practice in Princeton, prosecutors said.
The investigation continued late Thursday. Anyone with information was asked to call Detective Kanaley of the Plainsboro Police Department at (609) 454-4912, or Detective McCall of the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office at (732) 745-3652.
