Former hospital employee pleads guilty in assault
A former technician at Patton State Hospital has pleaded guilty Tuesday to committing a lewd act on a patient in late January.
Daniel Alawoya, 58, is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 7 in San Bernardino Superior Court, according to the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office.
Alawoya was taken into custody in March by state Department of Behavioral Health investigators after an investigation launched a month earlier revealed he allegedly raped a patient.
During the investigation, hospital officials moved Alawoya to a different post, where he was not interacting with patients, rather than put him on leave pending the outcome, hospital spokeswoman Cindy Barrett said, in an earlier report.
Alawoya had worked at the hospital about 16 months when he was fired the day of his arrest, Patton Executive Director Octavio Luna said earlier.
The defendant had originally faced charges of sodomy, forced oral copulation, committing a lewd act with a dependant adult and criminal threats, according to court records.
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