A buck naked man from Georgia, allegedly under the influence of crack cocaine, was discovered in a stroke patient’s room at an Atlanta hospital attempting to sexually assault the sleeping patient.
Naked man assaults hospital patient
24-year-old Shamon Pearceis being charged with aggravated assault, battery, and misdemeanor sexual battery for his actions against a 47-year-old woman on September 27 at Grady Memorial Hospital.
According to police, nurses first saw Pearce using a crack pipe in an elevator before he went the room of a stroke patient.
The victim awoke to find Pearce attempting to cover her head with a sheet. When she questioned what he was doing, he reportedly aggressively climbed on top of her, and instructed her to remain silent, she told police.
When she figured out that he was trying to sexually assault her, the woman began moving and demanded he get off of her, then they both fell of the bed.
At that point, she tried to scream for help, and hospital staff found them on the floor. One of the nurses captured the scene on her phone and summoned additional nurses to assist.
Naked man managed to escape
The nurses attempted to lock Pearce in the room to prevent his escape, but he was able to get away, fled naked down the corridor, and descended a staircase.
Pearce reportedly hid out in a a trash can in the hospital’s basement for about an hour before putting on a dirty hospital gown and leaving.
He was apprehended near the hospital, initially claiming to officers that he was a patient that had been discharged earlier that day.
He later allegedly admitted to the actions, stating that, “he got on the bed with her and rolled over on her,” according to the report.
Pearceis told the cops that he got high off smoking drugs and “was just trying something new” when he attacked the infirm woman.
The hospital released a statement outlining their enhanced security measures, such as increasing security personnel in the hospital, securing inpatient units, and requiring badges to access these areas. Hospital officials also stated that visitors must contact the nurse’s station to enter any unit.
Pearce is being held at the Fulton County Jail with a bail set at $10,000, according to online records.
Caretaker assaults elderly dementia patients
Elsewhere, Joel James Gonzales, 28, entered a guilty plea in August to felony lewd acts on a dependent adult, following a judge declaring a mistrial after the jury deadlocked on one of the charges against him.
Gonzales was employed as a caretaker for dementia and Alzheimer’s patients at the Royal Gardens elder care facility in Camarillo, California.
On October 15, 2020, Gonzales assaulted two patients that resided in the facility. Prosecutors alleged he went after his first victim multiple times, pushed her onto her bed, and attempted to remove her clothing. The patient fought back and and he allegedly stopped trying.
In a subsequent attack, Gonzales led a 90-year-old dementia patient into a storage closet, locked her inside.
He managed to perform “lewd acts on the victim before staff began knocking on the door,” according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors said that the following day, Gonzales crept through a doggy door at a Camarillo residence, “surprising the homeowner.”
The homeowner told him to leave, but he wouldn’t until a Ventura County Sheriff’s deputy arrived on scene.
Gonzales was arrested, but released the same day to a family member. The family’s daughter was hosting another six-year-old girl at the home for a sleep over, when a teenager heard loud noises coming from the room the children were staying in before dawn.
“A teenager in the home was the first to investigate and found Gonzales violently beating and choking the six-year-old victim in her sleeping bag,” prosecutors stated. “The teenager rushed at Gonzales, knocking him off the victim.”
The homeowners restrained Gonzales and called 911. Officers found the victim slipping in and out of consciousness, her face badly bruised and swollen. The girl survived the attack, but suffered brain trauma.
At his initial trial, the jury convicted Gonzales of attempted murder of the child, felony assault with intent to commit rape during a burglary, and misdemeanor assault.
Gonzales initially pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity before changing his plea to guilty at the end of the summer.
He was sentenced to sixteen years and eight months in prison on September 25.
