Martin Chalecki, in his apartment at the Marina Village housing project in Bridgeport, Conn. on Thursday, December 4, 2014, claims he was molested by Gonzalo Flores while a patient at St. Vincent's Medical Center. Chalecki said he reported the molestation to the hospital at the time, but that his charges were dismissed by hospital authorities.
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Chalecki's complaint was the first accusation against Flores police and hospital staff said they had received. There was no arrest at the time, and the February allegation lingered, unsubstantiated, for months.
Then on June 7, an unidentified Fairfield man reported to police that he was sexually assaulted in his hospital room. In that incident, the victim was paralyzed, according to a police report.
Following that alleged attack, as police investigated Flores -- but before his arrest -- the hospital fired him on June 11.
Nearly a month later, on July 8, Flores was arrested and jailed on charges he sexually assaulted the Fairfield patient.
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During the July 8 interview with Flores, the day of his arrest, police said he confessed to sexually assaulting more patients.
Then on Sept. 30, another alleged victim reported he was abused by Flores at the hospital on March 14, 2013 -- more than a full year before Chalecki's accusation.
On Nov. 15, while in jail, Flores was arrested a second time and charged with the sexual assault of the unidentified St. Vincent's patient in 2013-- the earliest known attack.
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"My roommate called the nurse, but instead of helping me, the nurse accused me of making it all up," he said. "She just kept saying `come on frequent flyer Martin, just stop lying. The doctor is not going to give you any more medication, come on frequent flyer Martin.' "
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Chalecki said he called hospital security from his room, and a security officer showed up a short time later, but didn't take his account seriously.
"He wrote something down, but I could tell he didn't believe me," he said.
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He said, `Are you sure the drugs didn't make you hallucinate? He kept saying `are you sure, are you sure?' Then he said if I made a false account, I could be arrested," Chalecki said. "He had me doubting myself and finally I told him, `All right I won't do anything, and he left.' "
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Hospital-rape-case-widens-5940881.php
Hospital rape case widens
Daniel Tepfer
Updated 2:16 pm, Monday, December 8, 2014
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