A hospital worker who sexually exploited a vulnerable patient has been jailed for more than nine years.
Jyv Cagampang, aged 35, was employed as a health care assistant at Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre when the woman was admitted to A&E in acute mental distress.
Owing to her vulnerability at the time, the victim was placed on one-to-one observations, meaning someone had to be with her at all times.
On the morning of 1 August 2022 that person was Cagampang, whose duty was to care for patients.
After a brief interaction between the pair, Cagampang kissed the woman before placing his hands on her in a sexual manner.
The victim was sectioned under the Mental Health Act the same day.
Cagampang was arrested several months later when the victim, now feeling better, approached police about what had happened.
Asked about incriminating messages sent between him and the woman on social media in the weeks after the incident, Cagampang gave no comment answers to detectives.
In a second police interview in January 2023 he admitted to having sexual contact with the victim but claimed she had forced him into it.
Cagampang, of Aspley, appeared at Nottingham Crown Court in April of this year and pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual activity with a mentally disordered female
Appearing at the same venue today (June 2) he was sentenced to nine years and four months in prison.
Detective Constable Ashleigh Simpson, of Nottinghamshire Police, said:
“As a healthcare professional Cagampang was trusted to look after an extremely vulnerable female patient at a moment of extreme distress.
“He chose to abuse that trust in the most appalling way as he took advantage of a vulnerable female patient for his own sexual gratification.
“Regardless of his insistence that the victim instigated the encounter, she was in such a vulnerable mental state that she could not possibly have consented to what happened.
“I hope, then, that this case serves as a reminder to everyone in positions of trust about the consequences of this kind of behaviour.”
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