Paramedic, 25, waives anonymity to reveal how she was sexually assaulted by patient
Unlock your matches with CindyMatches: http://bit.ly/cindyymatches. Paramedic, 25, waives anonymity to reveal how she was sexually assaulted by patient. A paramedic has waived her right to anonymity to reveal how she was sexually assaulted by a patient while treating him in the back of an ambulance.
Lizzie Smith was groped while she was on duty carrying out medical checks in an ambulance on a man who had been injured in a fight.
The 25-year-old reported the attack to the police and this month the suspect was fined and placed on the sex offenders' register for five years.
Brave Miss Smith waived her anonymity to highlight the scale of the abuse medical staff face in the UK.
She told ITV: 'I bent over slightly to put something in this bin and that's when he grabbed my bum.'
'I like to think I'm quite feisty sometimes and I know what to say, and I would react quite quickly.
'But I think I jumped I was so shocked.'
She added: 'I felt a bit sick, I felt upset, and I didn't say anything.'
Miss Smith's frank revelation lays bare the extent of the problem staff face, with the number of attacks of paramedics soaring by a third in just four years.
Worryingly, violent assaults on paramedics have risen in recent years according to stats released by the GMB Union.
The paramedic told ITV that she receives so much abuse from people she is treating that she sees it as part of the job.
'Sexually inappropriate comments I've had a lot of and I know friends have also had homophobic abuse, racial abuse.
'A weekend night shift you go into work expecting it to be honest,' she said.
Miss Smith said she hopes that by coming forward she can raise awareness of the problem.
'We do get so used to it - we get desensitized to it people don't make a fuss.
'And you know you've got to go to the next job, you know you're busy you don't report every comment that gets made to you or every inappropriate action that happens to you,' she
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