It happened last Christmas. A 19-year-old girl was sedated and raped by a nurse in the port city of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Almost a year later, justice has sentenced this man, identified as Víctor Hugo TG, to 29 years and 4 months in prison, the maximum penalty for aggravated rape.

In the conviction, the criminal court that tried the case also ordered the payment of compensation to the victim of 10,000 dollars (9,200 euros).

The events occurred in the early morning of December 25, 2022 at the Guasmo Sur General Hospital, in the port city of Guayaquil, capital of the coastal province of Guayas.

The victim had arrived at that center three days earlier due to a work accident, and under the pretext of calming the pain that afflicted her, the aggressor sedated the 19-year-old girl with an injection to complete the rape.

However, the victim – half asleep and unconscious – realized what had happened, so she waited for the nurse to leave the room to send a text message to her cousin and tell her what happened, according to the Prosecutor's Office.

Her family member filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office, an institution that requested police presence at the hospital, where the doctors on duty had already been alerted to what had happened by the patient herself, who fully identified her attacker.

The agents arrested the rapist and brought him to justice.

At the trial, the prosecutor in the case presented as evidence the testimony of nine people, including police and investigators, that of the medical expert and psychologist, and that of a relative of the victim.. In addition, the victim's anticipated testimony was reproduced.

Added to this were the arrest report and the investigation report, the complaint filed with the Prosecutor's Office, the psychological and social environment assessments, the medical-legal and gynecological report, the forensic genetics test, the exploitation and extraction of information from the cell phone. of the victim and the report of recognition of the scene of the events.