A housekeeping employee at the CHSLD Laurendeau, in the north of Montreal, is accused of having sexually assaulted a vulnerable resident for months. Abdelhamid Nader would have made his victim endure heinous sexual abuse, bedridden and wearing a diaper, going so far as to threaten her with death by strangling her.
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The 40-year-old Montrealer is due to appear this Friday at the Montreal courthouse to face three counts filed last month by summons: sexual assault, uttering threats and causing bodily harm by choking or strangling. He has not worked at the CHSLD since March 17.
Blowjobs with ejaculation, intrusive touching, death threats: the acts alleged against Abdelhamid Nader are extremely violent.
“Abdel lies down on [la plaignante] and he said to her: “I love you, you are beautiful!” He puts his hand over his mouth, then over his throat. She wants to scream, but she can’t. She tells him to stop, but he doesn’t. Abdel touches her breasts over her jacket: the gesture does not last long. Abdel puts his hand in his diaper passing by the side and he touches her vagina. »
This account of the first alleged assault is taken from an information signed by a detective sergeant of the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) in March 2022 in order to obtain an order for the production of evidence. In the court document, authorized by a magistrate justice of the peace, the police officer summarizes the testimony of the complainant, whose name we are withholding. However, these allegations have not been tested by the facts.
During this first event, which would have occurred in August 2021, the complainant said that she slept in her hospital gown in her bed after supper. The accused then entered the bedroom behind her and closed the door. The woman called on the employee to let her go, but felt she could “do no more to get him to stop,” the court document reads.
After having “groped” the complainant, Abdelhamid Nader took her by the throat with both hands and called out to her: “Don’t move, because I’m going to kill you! “says Detective Sergeant Lucie Bélisle in her denunciation. The CHSLD employee would then have forced the patient to perform oral sex on him.
[La patiente] feels that she has no choice, she is afraid of dying.
Lucie Bélisle, detective sergeant of the SPVM, in a signed denunciation
The complainant told the police that the attacks happened about once a week, always on Thursdays. The last attack would have occurred after Christmas 2021, while she was lying in bed. After closing the door on entering the room, Abdelhamid Nader allegedly sexually assaulted the woman by touching her private parts and imposing oral sex on her, writes the detective sergeant.
Other employee advances
It was the unit head of the CHSLD Laurendeau who alerted the police last February, according to the court document. The complainant had confided in another housekeeping employee, who reported the situation to a manager of the establishment. Abdelhamid Nader was suspended the same day as the 911 call, according to the police denunciation.
The accused also allegedly made advances to two work colleagues in an “insistent” manner, which made them “uncomfortable”, according to a police officer’s report summarized in the document. The accused would also have made advances to another patient of the CHSLD, without however making a sexual gesture, it is indicated.
Abdelhamid Nader was an employee of CHSLD Laurendeau, his employer confirmed to The Press. He therefore did not work for an employment agency, as is often the case in the health sector.
“Our employees’ files are confidential, and we are not in a position to comment on them. Mr. Nader has not been with us since March 17, 2022,” said Émilie Jacob, spokesperson for the Integrated University Health and Social Services Center of the North Island of Montreal.
The CHSLD Laurendeau was particularly affected by the first wave of COVID-19 in the spring of 2020. More than 80 residents of the establishment succumbed to the coronavirus in the first two months of the pandemic.
With the collaboration of Daniel Renaud, The Press