Care staff molested by sex pest

A care home worker f rom Motherwe l l sexually assaulted two female colleagues while they were looking after elderly residents.

The women were left frightened and disgusted by Moses Ojo’s shameless behaviour.

Ojo, 39, of Gresham View, Motherwell, appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court and admitted molesting the women, both in their 20s, at separate care homes in Lanarkshire.

Sheriff David Bicket imposed a three- year community payback order as an alternative to prison.

Ojo will be under supervision and was put on the sex offenders register. He must also do 250 hours of unpaid community work.

The court heard the first victim was targeted in August last year when she and married Ojo were helping a resident in a toilet.

Vish Kathuria, prosecuting, said: “This was the first time she had worked with Ojo. Without consent, he kissed her on the lips. She pushed him away and he said ‘But it’s fun. Come here.’

“He kept trying to grab the woman’s hand. She told him to get off, but he was touching her bottom and waist, all in the presence of the elderly patient.”

His inappropriate conduct continued in another room and again during their shift the next day.

The woman tried to avoid him, but he began pestering her when they were alone, again he touched her bottom, made inappropriate comments and threatened to follow her home.

The woman didn’t report this conduct at the time, but came forward after hearing Ojo had been suspended following other allegations.

She told police his behaviour had “made me want to cry”.

Ojo had moved to another care home by then and in December last year he sexually assaulted his second victim while they were working night shifts.

First he grabbed her leg, but she pushed him away.

An hour later he grabbed her from behind as she was sitting with a resident, preventing her from moving.

He grabbed her breasts over her blouse which he tried to unzip. She struggled, shouting for him to stop.

He also tried to force his hands down the inside of her jeans, but she pushed him away and left the room. Moses groped the woman again during that shift when she was in another room changing a patient’s catheter.

He rubbed himself against her, kissed her and forced his hand down the front of her jeans.

Another struggle ensued before she broke free and fled from the room.

Ojo followed her to another resident’s room, made indecent remarks and forcibly kissed her.

The woman shoved him away and this time phoned for a taxi to take her home.

Mr Kathuria said she was “clearly distressed” by this time. She called a colleague and revealed what Ojo had been doing to her.

She didn’t tell her boyfriend at that point. The next day they were in a car and another man touched her innocently.

This caused her to “freak out”, the fiscal said, and she told her partner what had happened to her at work.

The court was told that Ojo, who has family in Nigeria, supports his wife and child. He has no previous convictions.

He claimed that his workplace was dominated by women and sex was a regular topic of conversation. He said he “misinterpreted” their banter.