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Hospital chain sued after ICU nurse assaulted ‘potentially thousands’ of patients – suit alleges Christopher Lambros, 61, filmed his sexual assault of unconscious women

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e2427&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Nurse&nbsp&semi;Christopher Lambros has been arrested and charged with sexual assault<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e2427&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Affidavit alleges that on one day in June Lambros made five videos of himself abusing a patient<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e2427&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>He allegedly whispered to the camera saying &&num;8216&semi;don&&num;8217&semi;t ever get rid of these videos&&num;8217&semi; and &&num;8216&semi;you need to keep them forever… this is your Dexter collection <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e2427&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Attorneys say four terabytes of data &&num;8211&semi; about 65&comma;000 hours of cellphone videos &&num;8211&semi; has been found connected to assaults <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e2427&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>St&period; Mary’s was sued on Tuesday for what lawyers say was gross negligence in not catching Lambros’ behavior<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e2427&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>The lawsuit alleges there could be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;thousands” of victims between 2016 and 2022<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e2427&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>Prosecutors who have identified three victims assaulted by Lambros&comma; believe a fourth person&comma; not yet identified&comma; was assaulted in 2016 <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e2427&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>Lambros who began working at St&period; Mary&&num;8217&semi;s in 2012&comma; is currently in Mesa County Jail on a &dollar;1 million bond<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;12&sol;Christopher-Lambros-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-425312" width&equals;"837" height&equals;"958"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>A huge amount of evidence has been uncovered in the criminal investigation into nurse Christopher Lambros &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&period; The 61-year-old male nurse has been charged with sexual assault&period; He is currently held in jail on a &dollar;1million bond<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Two women have sued a Colorado hospital after an ICU nurse allegedly filmed himself sexually assaulting them while they were unconscious or incapacitated&period;<br>Local media reported that &&num;8216&semi;a mountain of evidence has been uncovered in the criminal investigation into nurse&nbsp&semi;Christopher Lambros&&num;8217&semi;&period; The 61-year-old male nurse who began working at St&period; Mary&&num;8217&semi;s in 2012&comma; has been arrested and charged with sexual assault&comma; according to the attorneys who filed the class action lawsuit&period; <br>He is currently held in Mesa County Jail on a &dollar;1 million bond&period;<br>The attorneys from Denver civil rights law firm Rathod Mohamedbhai LLC said four terabytes of data has allegedly been found in connection to the alleged assaults&period;<br>According to his arrest affidavit&comma; on a day in June when Lambros made five videos of himself abusing a patient&comma; he whispered to the camera saying &&num;8216&semi;don&&num;8217&semi;t ever get rid of these videos&&num;8217&semi; and &&num;8216&semi;you need to keep them forever… this is your Dexter collection&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>The lawsuit claims he was referencing the television show &&num;8216&semi;Dexter&comma;&&num;8217&semi; in which the main character is a serial killer&comma; and says the comment shows he maintained a library of photos or videos of his victims&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;Four terabytes of data amounts to approximately 700&comma;000 cellphone photos or 65&comma;000 hours of cellphone videos&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the law firm said in a press release&period; <br>The firm said it believes there could be a decades-worth of potential victims&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;12&sol;Two-women-who-say-a-nurse-sexually-assaulted-in-Colorado-hospital-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-425313" width&equals;"843" height&equals;"553"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Two women who say a nurse sexually assaulted them while they were unconscious in intensive care stand outside the offices of their attorneys in Denver&comma; Tuesday&comma; December 20&period; St&period; Mary’s was sued on Tuesday for what lawyers say was gross negligence in not catching Lambros’ behavior&period; The lawsuit alleges there could be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;thousands” of victims between 2016 and 2022 <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Two women&comma; identified only as MC and JV&comma; have come forward saying they were sexually assaulted by&nbsp&semi;Lambros while they were&nbsp&semi;unconscious in intensive care&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>They&nbsp&semi;filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Colorado hospital where they were being treated&comma; alleging the hospital&&num;8217&semi;s management didn&&num;8217&semi;t do enough to prevent the abuse&period;<br>The lawsuit &&num;8211&semi; which is proposed as a class action suit &&num;8211&semi; alleges St&period; Mary&&num;8217&semi;s Hospital in Grand Junction and SCL Health and Intermountain Healthcare&comma; the companies that ran the hospital&comma; knew or should have known about the actions of Lambros&comma; who has been arrested and charged with sexual assault&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>According to court documents&comma; prosecutors have identified three people who they believe were assaulted by Lambros and think a fourth person who has not been identified yet was assaulted in 2016&period;<br>A sprawling investigation is being conducted by the Grand Junction Police Department&comma; the 21st Judicial District Attorney&&num;8217&semi;s office and the U&period;S&period; Secret Service&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;12&sol;St&period;-Marys-Hospital-in-Grand-Junction-Denver-Colorado-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-425314" width&equals;"836" height&equals;"512"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>The lawsuit &&num;8211&semi; which is proposed as a class action suit &&num;8211&semi; alleges St&period; Mary&&num;8217&semi;s Hospital in Grand Junction &lbrack;photo&rsqb; and SCL Health and Intermountain Healthcare&comma; the companies that ran the hospital&comma; knew or should have known about the actions of Lambros&comma; who has been arrested and charged with sexual assault<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;12&sol;Intermountain-Healthcare-in-Grand-Junction-Colorado-1-1024x680&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-425316"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>The Colorado OKs SCL Health mega-merger in early 2022&comma; created one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the Wes&comma; becoming a 33-hospital&comma; 58&comma;000-employee chain&comma; which includes <strong>Intermountain Healthcare in in Grand Junction&comma; one of the institutions enjoined in the lawsuit<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">In a statement&comma; St&period; Mary&&num;8217&semi;s said it is fully cooperating in the investigation into Lambros but declined comment on the lawsuit&period; &&num;8216&semi;We cannot offer further details about this matter out of respect for patient privacy&comma;&&num;8217&semi; it said&period;<br>Siddhartha Rathod&comma; one of the lawyers for the women who filed the lawsuit&comma; said they are the same women Lambros is charged with assaulting&period; He said the third victim who has been identified has since died&period;<br>As part of the criminal case&comma; prosecutors have told his clients that investigators recovered four terabytes of data as evidence and are still investigating how many people were assaulted&comma; Rathod said&period; He said part of the reason the suit is being filed is to encourage any other potential victims to come forward&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;This is about public safety and about hospitals ensuring that their patients are not only safe but treated with dignity and respect&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;12&sol;Two-women-who-say-a-nurse-sexually-assaulted-in-Colorado-hospital-3-1024x681&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-425321" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"558"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>The two victims identified as MC&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; her husband&comma; Scott&comma; &lbrack;middle&rsqb;&comma; and JV&comma; &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; stand with their backs to the camera at their lawyer’s office on Tuesday&comma; Dec&period; 20&comma; 2022&period; MC and JV are sexual assault victims of former St&period; Mary’s Hospital nurse Christopher Lambros&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">In a statement&comma; District Attorney Dan Rubenstein declined to comment on the evidence and what it may reveal&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>He noted that both the women&&num;8217&semi;s lawyers and hospital representatives have been communicating with prosecutors as they try to navigate the &&num;8216&semi;complicated situation&&num;8217&semi; of protecting patient privacy laws and getting information needed to prosecute the criminal case&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;We cannot comment on what evidence we have&comma; and also cannot speculate on what we may find&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he said&period;<br>The victims have only been identified as M&period;C&period; and J&period;V&period;&comma; or victim No&period; 1 and No&period; 2&period;&nbsp&semi;<br>One of the women in the lawsuit &&num;8211&semi; J&period;V&period; said she was sexually abused as a child and that she is angry&comma; anxious and depressed after being victimized again&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;12&sol;Two-women-who-say-a-nurse-sexually-assaulted-in-Colorado-hospital-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-425318" width&equals;"842" height&equals;"517"&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><strong>Two women who say a nurse sexually assaulted them while they were unconscious in intensive care are shown inside the offices of their attorneys&comma; Tuesday&comma; Dec&period; 20&comma; 2022&comma; in Denver<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">She said she has not received even an apology from the hospital but she&&num;8217&semi;s still charged &dollar;905 each month from her bank account under a payment plan to pay the bill for her hospital stay&period; She also gets regular email and a text reminders of the debit&period;&nbsp&semi;&&num;8216&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s a slap in the face&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she said&period;<br>M&period;C&period; was Lambros&&num;8217&semi; last alleged victim before he was arrested&period;<br>According to the lawsuit&comma; the nurse entered M&period;C&period;&&num;8217&semi;s hospital room &&num;8211&semi; room 324 &&num;8211&semi; on July 9&comma; 2022&period; She was sedated and on a ventilator after having difficulty breathing&period;<br>He deepened her sedation with drugs&comma; and then sexually assaulted her while she was unconscious&comma; the criminal complaint says&comma; and he also took photos on his cell phone and took photos and videos of himself on top of her breasts and genitalia&period;<br>Another employee walked into the room and saw that M&period;C&period; was exposed on the bed&comma; and reported Lambros to law enforcement&comma; the suit says&period;<br>Three days later&comma; employees at SCL Health and Intermountain told M&period;C&period;&&num;8217&semi;s husband that she had been a victim of sexual assault while in the hospital&period;<br>He said as his wife was preparing to undergo a lung biopsy&comma; he did not want to worry her further by telling her before the procedure&period; But when M&period;C&period; got home&comma; he told her of the assault&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;I thought he was joking&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she told <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cpr&period;org&sol;2022&sol;12&sol;21&sol;grand-junction-nurse-sexual-assault-lawsuit&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Colorado Public Radio<&sol;a>&comma; &&num;8216&semi;then he showed me the police report and I lost it&period; They put this monster in the hospital and there&&num;8217&semi;s&comma; you know&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m not the only one&period; There are other people out there&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s been going on way too long and it&&num;8217&semi;s sickening&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s sickening that a nurse can do this to somebody&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>Lambros’ is next scheduled to appear in court in January&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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