Phoenix, Arizona (WBAP/KLIF) – A 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman in a vegetative state who then gave birth last month at a Phoenix health care facility, Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams said Wednesday.
Nathan Sutherland, a licensed practical nurse who was caring for the woman at the Hacienda HealthCare facility, has been arrested and is being booked on preliminary charges of sexual assault and vulnerable-adult abuse, Williams said.
Phoenix Police spokesman said on Wednesday announced Sutherland was one of the woman’s caregiving nurses. The suspect was matched to the baby through DNA testing.
The incapacitated woman is 29-year’s old and has been in the facility since the age of 3. She gave birth to the boy at a long-term health care facility on Dec. 29.
The woman’s family has said they will take care of the boy.
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