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Napa State Hospital Patient Faces Arraignment for Sex Attack on Staffer

By Bay City News Service.

A inmate is expected to be arraigned Friday or Monday for an alleged sexual battery at the hospital on Wednesday.

Jesus Hernandez Tobar, 30, was arrested by Napa State Hospital police Wednesday and booked into the for false imprisonment by violence, sexual battery by restraint, rape and attempting to commit a crime, jail receptionist Karen Ortega said this afternoon. Bail had been set at $250,000.

The victim of the alleged assault is a staff member of the hospital, said Jennifer Turner, spokeswoman for the California Department of Mental Health.

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Turner and Deborah Moore, Napa State Hospital's public information officer, declined to release any more information Thursday.

Napa County Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael O'Reilly said the incident is still under investigation.

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It's the third reported act of violence at the hospital since October.

Napa State Hospital psychiatric technician Donna Gross, 54, of Concord, was murdered by a patient at the hospital on Oct. 23. A preliminary hearing for the accused killer, Jess Willard Massey, 37, is scheduled for May 2.

George Anderson, 60, a rehabilitation therapist, suffered multiple fractures when he was attacked at the hospital on Dec. 11. His alleged assailant, Sean Bouchie, 24, was found incompetent to stand trial and was sent back to Napa State Hospital.

Napa State Hospital employees and their union representatives have rallied and protested against unsafe conditions and inadequate staffing at the hospital.

"It just shows that the violence there is pervasive and there should be increased police presence there," Dr. Stuart Bussey, president of the Union of American Physicians and Dentists said in a statement Thursday.

"If they can't affect change, the administration should be changed," said Bussey, who called the hospital, "a wild and dangerous place."

"Regardless of the budget, they should make funds available. This is a priority," Bussey said.

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