03-06-2025
Nottingham hospital worker jailed for sexually assaulting mental health patient in her bed
A healthcare assistant has been jailed for sexually assaulting a patient who was going through a "mental health crisis", as she lay in a hospital bed.
Jyv Cagampang was sentenced to nine years and four months after the patient tracked him down on Facebook, to get him to admit what he did at the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham.
Cagampang kissed and touched the 36-year-old victim while she was in bed surrounded by curtains, and then told her to "pretend to be asleep" if anyone walked in, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
The patient had been in an accident and emergency department in July 2022 and was given one-to-one supervision with Cagampang.
In a victim impact statement, she told how she 'should have been able to feel safe by people trained in care'.
After she was discharged to a mental health unit, she tracked him down through social media.
Prosecutor Sarah Knight told the court: 'She later told the police she looked him up on Facebook because she could remember his first name and showed them messages they exchanged including one voice note in which he said she was 'horny and wanted it'.
"He was arrested and initially gave 'no comment' answers and then later gave a prepared statement in which he said she had rubbed his wrist and kissed him and he was shocked when she did. He said she became aroused and grabbed his hand and (put it down her underwear).'
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust confirmed Cagampang was suspended immediately after accusations were brought to its attention. A spokesperson described his behaviour as "utterly unacceptable".
Cagampang from Minver Crescent in Aspley, and who is also known as Jyv Jamal, pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a mentally disordered female.
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"He was meant to be looking after me"
The prosecutor read out a long statement made by the victim who joined the courtroom virtually to see her abuser jailed.
In it, the victim said she has suffered with her mental health for 20 years, and had been sectioned and attempted suicide several times.
She said: 'He was at work, he was meant to be looking after me, I should have been able to feel safe when I was in crisis by people trained in care. This is going to stay with me for the rest of my life.'
Marina Williamson, mitigating, said: 'This was on impulse and not premeditated in any way and he would like to express his remorse and apology.
'Since the commission of these offences there have been no further criminal behaviour. He recognises he crossed a professional boundary, it was an isolated incident during a chaotic period of time in the hospital. He has lost his job, career, professional standing and will never work in the care industry again.'
Judge Nirmal Shant KC said: 'Left in your charge was a highly emotional patient that was in a mental health crisis. It is quite plain she was in a desperate state at that time.
"This was a gross and blatant breach of trust. She said in her victim impact statement 'he was at work and he should have been looking after me'. You then tried to blame her saying she had instigated any touching which shows at first you were trying to get away with it.
'She has been profoundly impacted by what you did to her that day. She said it has changed her life completely. She was literally in a hospital bed waiting to be admitted to a psychiatric ward.'
