Male nurse is found guilty of committing sickening sex acts against patients fresh from surgery
A former nurse will spend at least three-and-a-half years in jail after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a student and patients under his care at two private hospitals.
Ali Khamis Moh had harassed three separate women at Norwest and Nepean private hospitals in Sydney between December 2018 and March 2022.
At the time, he worked as a clinical nurse specialist, caring for patients requiring surgery in intensive care and coronary care units.
The 44-year-old was sentenced on Friday to five years and two months in prison with a non-parole period of three and a half years.
Judge Ian Bourke said Moh had ‘manipulated and abused his position of authority for his own sexual gratification’.
“The victims speak in no uncertain terms about the fear, confusion, shock and sense of violation that the victims experienced at the time of the incident,” he told Parramatta Crown Court.
After 14 hours of deliberation in August, a jury found Moh’d guilty of one charge of rape and three charges of aggravated sexual touching.
He was found to have grabbed a 21-year-old student nurse’s underwear and ripped them off her skin to expose her genitals while teaching her how to listen to bowel sounds with a stethoscope.
Ali Khamis Moh had abused his power as a nurse for ‘his own sexual gratification’, a judge ruled
Jurors accepted further complaints from a 25-year-old patient that Moh had asked to inspect a surgical wound in her groin area shortly after her heart surgery.
He massaged her groin before touching her vagina with his fingers.
During the trial, Attorney General Sarah Beaumont told jurors that the patient began crying after Moh left the room.
The 25-year-old later filed a complaint with the hospital and went to the police.
Moh’d was also found to have touched a 67-year-old woman’s breasts while applying heart monitor stickers to her body after showering before surgery.
During the trial, the prosecutor alleged that Moh told her, “You have nice breasts for someone your age.”
During the trial, Moh’d’s lawyer Linda Barnes said her client denied having sexual contact with any of the complainants.
“In short, Mr Moh’d’s case is that all contact he had with the complainants was for medical purposes, that is for health or hygiene purposes or for educational purposes,” she told the jury.
Moh had taken abused patients and a student nurse while working at two private hospitals, including Nepean Private Hospital (pictured)
On Friday, Ms Barnes argued he should receive a lesser sentence because he appeared to receive no apparent sexual gratification from his offending.
“We often see evidence in court from complainants along the lines of observations that a person was visibly aroused, had erections, ejaculated,” she said.
“There was no evidence from any of the complainants that Moh had shown anything that reflected sexual gratification.”
But Judge Bourke said the crime was serious and he was not satisfied with that argument.
“The absence of such elements does not diminish the seriousness,” he said.
Moh’d’s wife sat silently in the back of the court during the sentencing.
It is eligible for release in 2028.
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