Carer sacked for sex chat in front of OAP
A CARE worker who subjected a vulnerable 94-year-old greatgreat-grandmother to ‘highly inappropriate’ sex chat has been sacked from his hospital job.
Doreen MacIntyre’s family listened in horror as a secret recording revealed John George and a female care home worker conducting sexually explicit conversations in front of her.
The tape recorded the pair giving the dementia sufferer a slow round of applause after she asked them for ‘a hand’.
George, 46, left his job at Kingsmills Care Home in Inverness before the disciplinary process could be completed and went on to work as a nursing auxiliary at the city’s Raigmore Hospital.
After an investigation by the Scottish Daily Mail, he was suspended from Raigmore in December while a probe was carried out.
He has now been dismissed, a move welcomed by Mrs MacIntyre’s daughter Blan Bremner.
Mrs Bremner, 62, said: ‘This was a serious breach of trust. We’ve been left feeling guilty that we placed Mum somewhere we thought she’d be looked after. People are calling them “scare homes”.’
Mrs Bremner, of Ardersier, Inverness-shire, made the 16-hour recording in September 2013 after her mother suddenly became unhappy a month earlier. The GP receptionist said: ‘Her behaviour changed. She said, “They’re calling me a bloody pest”.’
Initially reluctant to believe that, the family hid a dictaphone under napkins beside Mrs MacIntyre’s bed. Mrs Bremner described her horror at the contents.
‘One member of staff was talking about his sex life with his wife and ex-partners. Poor mum was just lying there. I thought, please stop. They were making a fool of her.’
Mrs Bremner said her mother, a retired home help and mother of six, could be heard calling for help for an hour-and-a-half, adding: ‘She was crying out for a nurse.’
Mrs Bremner, 62, wept and felt sick when she heard the recording, which she believes contributed to her mother’s decline before her death in November 2013.
The Care Inspectorate upheld three complaints against the home after the investigation.
It told Mrs Bremner the workers’ was ‘unacceptable’ and ‘highly inappropriate’. It added: ‘The recordings evidenced a disregard for your mother and a lack of empathy, dignity and respect.’
Police investigated but said what happened was not a crime.
A spokesman for NHS Highland said: ‘It would be inappropriate to comment as the individual no longer works for NHS Highland.’