Hospital intercourse assault as intruder tells girl ‘should you contact the button I’ll kill you’
A man was arrested after an alleged sexual assault on a woman at around 3.30am on Tuesday morning at Can Misses Hospital in Ibiza. He allegedly told the woman he would kill her
Can Misses Hospital has bolstered security following the horror incident(Image: SOLARPIX.COM)
An Ibiza hospital has bolstered security ahead of the summer season following a horrific sex attack on a patient by an intruder.
The man allegedly slipped past security at Can Misses Hospital in the early hours of Tuesday morning before targeting an elderly woman receiving treatment there and warning her: “If you touch the help button, I’ll kill you.”
Staff gave chase after being alerted but he fled before he could be apprehended. Police nabbed a suspect after examining CCTV footage. He remains unnamed but has been described locally as a resident of a makeshift settlement beside the hospital which stems from the island’s acute housing crisis tied to rocketing rental costs and over-tourism.
The victim is believed to have been in a shared room with another person who was showering at the time.
Healthcare manager Eduardo Escudero acknowledged yesterday: “We were in shock when we received the news” as he vowed to overhaul security at the state-run hospital whose British patient numbers surge in summer with the influx of tourists to Ibiza.
Confirming the incident occurred around 3.30am on Tuesday, he said: “This will make us rethink the hospital’s entire security system.”
The arrested intruder, identified by hospital staff as a “young man with a beard” managed to breach the premises by forcing an entry door and escaped by forcing another.
A National Police source confirmed this morning the arrest was made on Wednesday. It remained unclear today whether the suspect is still being held in police custody or has already been transferred to a judge for additional questioning.
The opposition PSOE party in Ibiza responded to the incident by issuing a statement: “A hospital is a place of healing. It cannot become a space of vulnerability for women. Women have the right to be safe in all spaces, especially when we need it most.
“What happened at Can Misses cannot be repeated, and we demand that the competent institutions act with the same forcefulness with which we raise our voices today.”
They continued: “That a man could enter the hospital at night, go up to a floor with admitted patients, enter a room, and sexually assault a woman without being identified until hours later reveals a security failure of extreme seriousness.
“There can be no excuses or half measures: the system failed, and this has consequences.”
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