African migrant nursing assistant charged in rape of stroke victim

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Lamin Darboe, 39,
fled after being
charged with rape.

Nursing assistant charged in rape of stroke victim

A former nursing assistant, who police believe fled to Africa after he was charged with raping an incapacitated patient, had been acquitted in another rape case earlier this year and had been fired from a previous nursing job at Swedish Medical Center for inappropriate behavior with female patients.

Kindred Hospital, where the rape of the incapacitated woman took place, said they never would have hired Lamin Darboe in 2005 had officials there been aware of his termination from Swedish, Cheryl Payseno, CEO of the long-term-care center in Seat
tle's Northgate neighborhood, said Thursday. Darboe is accused of fondling and raping a 31-year-old stroke victim who is paralyzed and can't speak, according to charging papers filed in King County Superior Court.

While Swedish Medical Center maintains that it filed a complaint against Darboe with the state Department of Health about three weeks after firing him in 2002, the Department of Health said it never received the complaint.

Terry West, deputy executive director for the state Department of Health, said there are five people named Lamin Darboe licensed with the state as certified nursing assistants. During an investigation into the allegations, West said she has learned that Lamin Darboe is a very common name in the suspect's native Gambia.

West said Department of Health employees are looking into what happened to the Swedish complaint when it was sent to them four years ago.

A spokesman for Swedish Medical Center said another copy of the letter detailing why Darboe was f
ired from the hospital was turned over to the Department of Health on Thursday.

Darboe, 39, was charged with second-degree rape and indecent liberties on Aug. 6. He is believed to have fled to Gambia earlier this month, according to police.

On Wednesday, the Department of Health suspended his license.

In February, Darboe was acquitted of kidnapping and second-degree rape. Darboe, who lived in Shoreline at the time, was accused of kidnapping and forcing sex on a woman, said Snohomish County Deputy Prosecutor Craig Matheson.

In 2002, while working at Swedish, Darboe reportedly made sexual comments to a woman and penetrated her slightly with a finger while giving her a bath, according to King County court papers filed in connection with the recent rape at Kindred Hospital. Also while he was working at Swedish, Darboe gave his e-mail address and cellphone number to another female patient after she told him she wasn't interested in him, court papers say.

Darboe was hired to work
at Swedish on June 14, 1999, and was fired July 8, 2002, according to the hospital. On Aug. 1, 2002, hospital staff members sent a letter about his misconduct to the Department of Health, said Ed Boyle, a spokesman for the Seattle hospital.

The most recent rape allegation involves a woman who was paralyzed after suffering a stroke in May. She was admitted to Kindred Hospital on June 12, according to charging papers.

Though the woman can communicate only by nodding her head to indicate "yes" or "no," a friend notified the hospital about the alleged rape after she asked the victim if she was OK with Darboe giving her a bath, court papers say. The woman began to cry when questioned about the alleged abuse.

When authorities talked to the woman on July 24, she used an alphabet board to indicate that Darboe touched and raped her. He put a towel over her face during one of the rapes, according to charging documents. She said Darboe told her not to report what had happened.

The woman was
transferred to another care facility on July 21.

Payseno said that when Kindred officials learned of the alleged abuse, they immediately sent Darboe home, placed him on administrative leave, contacted police and reported the allegation to the Department of Health.

[Dragasès]

Low, contemptible, mud wallowing animal.

[Tyrone N. Butts]

Fetch da rope!

[Gman]

Stupid nursing home that would allow a nigger buck to bathe an incapacitated woman with no supervision!!!! Gimme a break!!!! Knowing that all niggers are sex hounds, how could a rape NOT happen there???? Does noone read Newnation.com???????? ARRGHRRR!!@#@##@!!!

Gman

[KLANSMAN]

Originally Posted by Gman

Stupid nursing home that would allow a nigger buck to bathe an incapacitated woman with no supervision!!!! Gimme a break!!!! Knowing that all niggers are sex hounds, how could a rape NOT happen there???? Does noone read Newnation.com???????? ARRGHRRR!!@#@##@!!!

Gman

The sad fact of the matter, Gman, is that these nursing homes (at least the ones I have spent time in) are like Planet of the Apes. I have visited 2 on an almost daily basis through the past several years and volunteered in another one. All of them have a staff that consists of 90 percent Haitians, Jamaicans, Nigerians etc. When you put your loved one in these places you are gambling that the gorillas on the staff can control themselves at their workplace. I have read of family members placing hidden cameras in the room. But I think that nothing can substitute for
consistent family visits to let the apes know they are being watched. Apes like the ones found on the pages of this website that commit these crimes against the elderly and helpless are especially deserving of a private visit by a Lone Wolf.

[Buster]

Niggers are hands down the lowest scum that ever tread the planet.

[Whitebear]

Mistrial declared in hospital rape by African migrant sex fiend



Lamin Darboe

SEATTLE - A man who was accused of raping a paralyzed patient in her own hospital bed has been set free after a judge declared a mistrial due to a hung jury.

Four jurors said there just isn't enough evidence to convict Lamin Darboe of the crime.

One of the jurors told KOMO 4 News her gut feeling is Lamin Darboe is guilty, but based on the testimony and exhibits, she had to vote not guilty.

Prosecutors insisted Darboe, a nursing assistant at Kindred Hospital, raped his own patient in her hospital bed. A stroke left the 32-year-old woman paralyzed and unable to speak. Darboe was responsible for her daily care, including sponge baths.

While eight jurors said they would have found him guilty, four others could not be convinced - especially after the defense picked apart inconsistencies in the patient's testimony - and then alleged her medication caused hallucinations.

Those four say they felt the inconsistencies and a "lack of evidence" prevented them from reaching a unanimous decision. None of the jurors knew that this wasn't the first time Darboe was accused of a sex-related crime. The judge ruled his history inadmissible.

In 2001, Darboe was charged with rape in Snohomish County. The case was dismissed. In 2003, another rape accusation, but Darboe was acquitted. And in 2002, Swedish Medical fired him for allegedly inappropriately touching a patient.

"I wish I could have had the knowledge of his history," one juror said.
But defense attorney Gene Piculell said, "without question, the jury reached the right decision."

The prosecutor says she may bring Darboe to trial again.
"We respect the jury's decision in this," said Lisa Johnson from the prosecutor's office. "We're disappointed. They did have a lot of good points; we'll go back and think of the things they said and what they would have liked to heard more of."

The jury also didn't know that after Darboe was arrested, he fled the country to his native homeland of Gambia.
A year later when he returned, he was arrested.

The prosecutor's office says they'll decide whether to retry Darboe in two weeks.

[Johnny99]

Nursing aide sentenced for raping stroke victim
By Christine Clarridge
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...darboe08m.html
Seattle Times staff reporter

A former nursing assistant who raped a paralyzed stroke victim at a North Seattle long-term-care center last year was sentenced Friday to 8 ‚½ years to life in prison.

King County Superior Court Judge Julie Specter said if she had her way, she would sentence Lamin Darboe to life behind bars.

"I can't think of anything more violative than raping a helpless, paralyzed woman," Specter told Darboe. She said the case was one of the most shocking betrayals of trust she's seen in her courtroom.

"If it were up to me, I would never release you into our community," Specter said.

Darboe, 40, had entered a modified guilty plea, known as an Alford plea, to one count of second-degree rape in October. In an Alford plea, the defendant does not admit guilt but acknowledges he likely would be convicted if the case went to trial.

According to charging papers, Darboe was working at Kindred Hospital in North Seattle in the summer of 2006 when he fondled and raped a now-33-year-old woman who was paralyzed and couldn't speak as the result of a stroke. The woman used an alphabet board to tell authorities about the rape, according to charging documents.

The woman attended Friday's sentencing hearing with her husband and family members.

She wrote a letter that a victim's advocate read in court. The letter said the woman had suffered a second stroke as a result of Darboe's assaults on her in the critical weeks after her initial medical crisis.

From a wheelchair, she wailed at Darboe to express her outrage and injury, and she managed to force her hand into an obscene gesture that she directed at him.

Because he's been convicted of a violent sexual assault, Darboe falls under the jurisdiction of the Indeterminate Sentencing Review Board, which must agree that Darboe is not at risk of committing other sexual assaults before he can be released. At a minimum, he will be incarcerated for 8 ‚½ years before he is eligible to come before the review board.

He could spend up to life in prison. Then he should be deported since he'll never get what's coming to him in this country, unless he gets shanked in the joint
Darboe's Alford plea came before the start of his second trial on the charge. His first ended in a mistrial in July after jurors couldn't agree on a verdict. King County prosecutors decided a short time later to retry him.

Prosecutors said an investigation into Darboe's employment history indicated he managed to keep his license to work in health care despite two previous allegations of rape and three claims of sexual misconduct.