Nursing house employee fired after pleasuring aged dementia affected person and grabbing his ‘massive one’
Donna Gillet, 43, was sacked, convicted and placed on the sex offenders register after she sexually abused a vulnerable 77-year-old dementia patient at Winsford Grange Care Home in Cheshire
Donna Gillet, 43(Image: Donna Gillet/ Cavendish Press (Manchester) Ltd)
A healthcare assistant has been sacked, taken to court and could be expelled from her profession after she pleasured an elderly dementia patient while bathing him at a nursing home.
Donna Gillet, a 43-year-old mother of two, made inappropriate comments and actions towards the 77-year-old man, leaving a junior colleague and horrified. During the incident, Gillet also asked the patient if he “liked women with big bums” and when he responded affirmatively, she allowed him to touch her bum.
She then exited the room, making a comment about having just been “groped.” Gillet was later fired and reported to police after the horrified colleague told senior staff about the incident. She was subsequently charged with “engaging in sexual activity with a mentally disordered male”.
Gillet admitted the offence and was sentenced to to three months in prison, suspended for 18 months and ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work and 20 days of rehabilitation activity. She was also made to sign on the Sex Offenders Register for seven years and was banned from working with children for the rest of her life.
The patient, a father of one has since passed away. The incident occurred in June 2023 when the man was living at Winsford Grange Care Home which has been rated “inadequate” by the Care Quality Commission. Prosecutor Philip Clemo has said: “He had dementia and Parkinson’s as well as a host of other health issues and required 2 on 1 care. He was immobile and lacked capacity. That day the defendant and a colleague Ellie Morrin were assigned to clean the man and put him in his pyjamas
“The defendant was vastly more experienced having done the job for about seven ears whereas Ms Morrin had been doing it only a matter of months. When he was placed on the bed and put on his side it was clear he had an erection and the defendant made a seemingly light-hearted comment about him having ‘a big one’.”
Prosecutor Philip Clemo went on to describe the grim scenes of how Gillet pleasured the man suffering from dementia while her colleague in shock.
The prosecutor said: “The defendant then got some dry wipes and placed them on the patient’s penis and started to clean it in a motion that Ms Morrin immediately recognised as masturbatory. The defendant made a comment along the lines of ‘I knew that would work’ and repeated it when Ms Morrin questioned that.
“She asked the man if he liked women with big bums and he said ‘yeah’. He then went to touch the defendant’s breasts but she said that he couldn’t do that. She said he could only touch her bum but not her breasts. She then allowed him to continue tapping her bum and when they left the room she made a comment about having just been ‘groped’.”
In sentencing Judge Steven Everett told Gillet: “This was wholly inappropriate and truly despicable behaviour upon a gentleman who was in the winter of his life was very ill and did not understand the ramifications of what was going on.”
“You showed him no respect as he was entitled to his dignity or any care as you were a care worker and that compounded the many illnesses that he was suffering.
“The only fortunate feature is that you were in the presence of a care worker who did care. The real concern is that, if that was your behaviour in front of someone who did care, I dread to think of what sort of care worker you were.
The judge added: “Happily you will be prevented from doing that in future. It is only right you should never be allowed to have vulnerable people in your care ever again.”
