NORRISTOWN, Pa. (KYW Newsradio) — A 34-year-old Crescentville man has pleaded guilty to posing as a nurse at urgent care centers in Montgomery County so he could sexually assault women.
Ramon Garcia was a tech at Carbon Health Urgent Cares in Dresher, Jenkintown, and Philadelphia, but he admitted to telling women who came in for various treatments he was a nurse.
But Garcia told patients he was a nurse and watched them change into gowns, performed hands-on examinations of intimate body parts, and told one woman he had to watch her give a urine sample for a drug test. He also secretly photographed women in exam rooms and in the bathroom of the urgent care.
“He gained access to their bodies by holding himself out as a nurse, a medical worker who was qualified and able and permitted to conduct examinations, and he used that apparent authority to gain access to these women and to violate their trust for his sexual gratification,” said prosecutor Lauren Marvel.
Marvel credits the courage of the 12 women who came forward to report what Garcia had done to them.
“The women who came forward were incredibly brave. They talked about the feeling of violation, not just of their bodies, but of their trust, their trust in the medical system that was caused by this defendant's actions.”
Garcia pleaded guilty to numerous charges including aggravated indecent assault and invasion of privacy. He’ll be sentenced to 5 to 10 years in prison followed by five years probation after a sexually violent predator assessment is completed.