Man Accused Of Gouging Out Eye Of Fellow Hospital Patient, Blinding Her

[staysblazed_xo]

"An inpatient at a hospital in Wyoming is accused of blinding another person on his ward after gouging an elderly woman's eye out.

Police said the victim's remaining eye was so badly damaged it was likely to be beyond repair.

Patrick Lee Rose, 53, was arrested by officers from the Lander Police Department on November 26 after medical staff reported an attack on a patient at the hospital.

In court documents, Bryan Potratz, a nurse at the hospital, alleged Rose carried out the attack "before he could react."

According to reports, Potratz was helped by fellow nurse, Jim Hanson, in stopping the alleged assault and restraining the suspect until law enforcement arrived at the scene.

The suspect was arrested while still wearing hospital scrubs covered in blood. He is charged with aggravated assault and faces up to 10 years in prison along with $10,000 in fines."

More: here.

 

[Brillig]

He is charged with aggravated assault and faces up to 10 years in prison along with $10,000 in fines."

You can gouge out someone's eyes, blinding them, and the max sentence is ten years?!? That's terrible.

 

[Inferus]

Guess he prefers fingering to skull fucking.

 

[JackBurton]

Defintely a psych unit. If the crime didnt give it away, the fact that both nurses involved were men def does. Very common area of nursing to find males in the field.

Hopefully the woman was already done for, comatose or nearing death, and this won't have too major of an effect on her quality of life until she dies.

You can gouge out someone's eyes, blinding them, and the max sentence is ten years?!? That's terrible.

It's absolutely vomit inducing how little the govt/justice system cares about assaults like this. The same goes for anything that permanently maims or disfigures a person. People getting lit on fire and horrifically burned, genitals being mutilated, people being beaten or shot and suffering some measure of paralysis as a result, and as we see here, blinding, yet the penalties are never equitable to the lifetime of pain/suffering the act caused. Shocking society cares so little about ones fellow man that they wouldn't institute stricter/harsher penalties for such crimes.

 

[Sevens My Charm]

I vote he's required to donate his eyes for transplant to any match immediately..

 

[Sejanus]

Take his eyes...with an ice cream scoop.

 

[JackBurton]

I vote he's required to donate his eyes for transplant to any match immediately..

Not possible. Medical science has really slacked off when it comes to eyes and restoring vision. I don't think they'll EVER crack it. We got more promising breakthroughs and interesting research occurring with spinal cord injuries, which also will never be fully curable/treatable in large part to religious nuttter scumbags who refuse to fund stem cell reserach cuz they'd rather those cells be wasted instead of help people, those Christians sure are a caring bunch!

 

[Ramona the brave]

You can gouge out someone's eyes, blinding them, and the max sentence is ten years?!? That's terrible.

Right!? I feel like permanent blinding is on a whole new level than just attacking someone

 

[Bipedalprimate]

You can gouge out someone's eyes, blinding them, and the max sentence is ten years?!? That's terrible.

He should have to give up his eyes

 

[Sugar Cookie]

54-year-old Patrick Lee Rose, of Dubois, has been released from the Wyoming State Hospital (WSH) into the care and custody of his wife after being found “not fit to proceed” in the court process and “will not have any probability of becoming fit to proceed,” according to an order for release filed on June 25th. He will remain in the care of his wife for “as long as this action is going.”

Rose initially faced an aggravated assault and battery charge after he attacked a patient, Elaine Tillman, who was in a neighboring room at SageWest Healthcare in Lander on Thanksgiving day last year. In the attack, he gouged one of her eyes out and damaged the other.

Tillman was taken to a Utah hospital for treatment, but later died on December 9th, where the autopsy eventually listed the cause of death as “Homicide.”

Circuit Court Judge Robert Denhardt ordered a mental fitness evaluation for Rose during his December 14th preliminary hearing, to determine whether or not he was fit to proceed in the court process, or if could be “restored to competency.”

The court received the report on Rose’s competency to proceed from the WSH on June 18th, and a hearing was held on the same date.

The report stated that “the defendant cannot be restored to competency, not due to a treatable mental condition, but rather due to a traumatic brain injury suffered by the defendant several years ago.”

A WSH psychiatrist in attendance at the hearing also stated they were of the opinion that Rose, “is not subject to the provisions of Title 25,” and the bond was amended to a Personal Recognizance Bond, according to court documents filed by the Honorable Judge Robert Denhardt.

Elaine Tillman’s daughters, June Louise Tillman and Cathy Ann Lucas, filed a lawsuit back in July against SageWest Health Care on behalf of their mother, alleging SageWest was negligent in its supervision/monitoring of psychiatric patients, and that Rose was “insufficiently restrained.”

The complaint also alleged that SageWest, “breached its duties of care,” and that the overall treatment provided to Mrs. Tillman was insufficient.

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(Riverton, WY) – 54-year-old Patrick Lee Rose, of Dubois, has been released from the Wyoming State Hospital (WSH) into the care and custody of his wife after being found “not fit to proceed” in the court process and “will not have any probability of becoming fit to proceed,” according to an...

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[Crazy Cat Lady]

So he’s “not fit to proceed in the court process” but he’s now in the custody of his wife? If I were his wife, I’d be pretty worried.