HAIL: Vice cops in Hail arrested on Monday a young Saudi nurse who attempted to rape a woman patient by posing as a doctor at a government hospital.
The male nurse, an employee at the hospital, told the woman, a teacher, that he was a specialist doctor and needed to carry out a detailed examination to diagnose whether she had an abdominal disease.
The nurse asked the woman to come for an examination the next day and to come alone and send her driver away as he would drop her off at home, Al-Madinah newspaper reported.
Following examinations a day after, the man told the woman that she was suffering from a rare and serious disease, and that he had the correct medicine for her but that it was at home. He then asked the woman to come to his apartment where he tried to rape her. The woman, however, managed to escape.
The man then contacted the woman and tried to blackmail her into starting an illicit relationship, threatening to inform her husband of their “relationship” if she did not succumb.
The woman then contacted the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice and explained her situation. Commission members asked the woman to arrange to meet the man at an apartment. As soon as the woman entered the apartment, commission members entered and arrested the nurse.
“The commission members caught the man and handed him to police for further investigations,” said Suleiman Al-Redaiman, director of the commission in Hail. “People should not send their women folk alone to hospitals or other places where men work,” he added.
Meanwhile, a court in Sharourah in Najran province handed varying periods of jail time to five men who were convicted of sexually attacking a boy.
Two of the men were jailed for two years and given 500 lashes each, a third was sentenced to 26 months and 600 lashes, a fourth, at whose home the crime took place, was sentenced to 12 months and 150 lashes, while a driver who helped the men abduct the boy received six months and 150 lashes.
