Ok… this freaks me out, folks.
Shafeeq Sheikh was convicted of RAPING a patient while she was HEAVILY SEDATED.
He’s walking away without ANY jail time.
HOW? HOWWWWWWW?
Shafeeq Sheikh, 46, was instead sentenced by a jury to just 10 years’ probation and will have to register as a sex offender after he was found guilty of second-degree sexual assault.
The jury also recommended a suspension of a $10,000 fine.
The judge, by law, had to follow the jury’s recommendation.
Let me say this… is this were ME, that jury just signed a DEATH SENTENCE for the guy.
Why?
Well… his victim was my age when this happened to her. And if something like this happened to me, and the guy was SET FREE?
Well… my dad would kill him himself. I know it.
The assault occurred at Ben Taub General Hospital in November 2013 where a woman, then 27 years old and named only as Laura, had been hospitalized following an asthma attack.
She told the Houston Chronicle back in 2015 that a doctor, later identified as Sheikh, entered her room in the middle of the night.
He claimed that he needed to examine her lungs but instead set about touching her chest and fondling her breasts.
‘During the first two visits, the male physician entered the room and placed his mouth on her breast and inserted his fingers into her vagina. He also attempted to place his penis in her mouth,’ according to a 2015 lawsuit she filed.
That’s ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC… but it gets so, so much worse.
He then returned again to her room and raped her without a condom while she was being treated overnight for shortness of breath and wheezing.
Despite pressing a button to call a nurse, she discovered the next morning that the alarm had been disconnected, meaning there was no way for her to summon help.
At the time, Laura told the newspaper that she felt helpless during the ordeal.
OMG… DID HE DISCONNECT IT HIMSELF TO KEEP HER FROM CALLING OUT FOR HELP?!
THIS IS SO LEGITIMATELY DISTURBING.
At first, hospital staff didn’t believe her:
A rape kit was performed on Laura and DNA extracted from it matched a swab taken from Sheikh.
Surveillance video and ID card logs were then reviewed, which showed the doctor accessed the woman’s floor 12 times on the night of the attack even though she had not been assigned as his patient.
I’m going to be absolutely sick
Laura, now 32, told the court during the trial how the assault left her life unrecognizable and led to the end of her marriage.
The SCUMBAG’S defense was that she wanted it…and that imprisoning him would be harmful to his 4 kids.
UMMMM… I THINK IT’S MORE HARMFUL TO LET THOSE 4 KIDS LIVE WITH A RAPIST.
‘What he has done to himself and his family is punishment,’ his defense attorney told the court.
‘They are serving his sentence with him. His children are serving his sentence with him.’
YUP. So basically if you have kids, you are now allowed to rape without consequence.
This is a TRAVESTY.