Hospital tech sentenced in lewd act with patient
A former state hospital technician was sentenced Thursday to three years probation and time in county jail after he admitted to commiting a lewd act with an adult patient under his care.
Daniel I. Alawoya, a former tech at Patton State Hospital, was sentenced before Judge Robert J. Lemkau under the terms of a plea bargain reached Aug. 26 in San Bernardino Superior Court.
Alawoya, 58, was arrested in March after a transgender male patient alleged the defendant forcefully had sex with him. DNA evidence from the patient's under clothing matched to Alawoya, according to a Probation Department pre-sentencing report.
Under the plea bargain, Alawoya pleaded guilty to one count of commiting a lewd and lascivious act upon a dependant adult. In addition to the probation, Alawoya received 295 days in county jail.
With credit for time already served plus conduct credits, the defendant's lawyer, Ron Powell, said his client only had about two weeks left to serve in custody. Alawoya had no prior record.
However, Alawoya now has an immigration hold on him and faces deportation to his native Nigeria at the completion of his sentence. The defendant plans to fight deportation, his lawyer said.
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