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Midlands healthcare worker jailed over NHS hospital sex attack on patientJyv Cagampang, 35, has been locked up for sexual assaultNewsAnnabal Bagdi Senior reporter20:35, 04 Jun 2025Updated

20:35, 04 Jun 2025Jyv Cagampang(Image: Nottinghamshire Police ) A hospital worker who sexually assaulted a distressed patient while he was on shift has been locked up.

Jyv Cagampang 'exploited' the woman after she had been admitted to A&E during a mental health crisis.

The 35-year-old heath care assistant was assigned to keep an eye on his victim but instead assaulted her.

He later blamed the woman for his actions but detectives said she was so vulnerable 'she could not possibly have consented to what happened'.

Cagampang, of Aspley, Nottingham, admitted two counts of sexual activity with a mentally disordered female.

He was jailed for nine years and four months at Nottingham Crown Court on Monday, June 2.

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Nottinghamshire Police said Cagampang was working at Queen’s Medical Centre, in Nottingham, when the woman was admitted to A&E in 'acute mental distress'.

As she was vulnerable at the time, she was placed on one-to-one observations.

This meant that someone had to be with her at all times.

Cagampang was on shift on the morning of August 1, 2022, and it was his duty to 'care for patients'.

There was a 'brief interaction' between the pair before Cagampang kissed the woman and put his 'hands on her in a sexual manner'.

The victim was sectioned under the Mental Health Act the same day, police said.

Cagampang was arrested months later when the victim recovered and approached police about the ordeal.

The defendant was asked about incriminating messages sent between him and the victim on social media in the weeks after the incident but he 'gave no comment answers to detectives'.

In a second police interview in January 2023, he admitted having sexual contact with the victim but claimed she had forced him into it.

Detective Constable Ashleigh Simpson, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: "As a healthcare professional Cagampang was trusted to look after an extremely vulnerable female patient at a moment of

extreme distress.

"He chose to abuse that trust in the most appalling way as he took advantage of a vulnerable female patient for his own sexual gratification.

Article continues below "Regardless of his insistence that the victim instigated the encounter, she was in such a vulnerable mental state that she could not possibly have consented to what

happened.

"I hope, then, that this case serves as a reminder to everyone in positions of trust about the consequences of this kind of behaviour."

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