Nathan Sutherland has been arrested and accused of the rape of a woman who was in a vegetative state at the Hacienda Healthcare facility in Arizona. Sutherland, 36, is a licensed nurse practitioner who had been assigned to care for the woman who gave birth. Officials made the announcement of the arrest on January 23. It had earlier been reported that investigators had looked for DNA samples from all of the male employees of the facility. On January 22, they got a hit after matching the baby’s DNA to Sutherland’s.
Sutherland is facing one count of sexual assault and one count of vulnerable adult abuse. Sutherland has worked at the facility since 2011. As a result of the scandal, the Hacienda Healthcare facility CEO, Bill Timmons, resigned on January 7.