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Sexual Molestation at the Sleep Lab
By JEFF GREEN
jgreen@MorningJournal.com
ELYRIA — A former Amherst sleep lab technician has pleaded no contest to charges he groped five women that sought therapy at the lab.
Mina N. Roufail, 23, of Parma Heights, pleaded no contest yesterday to five counts each of sexual imposition and gross sexual imposition. He will be sentenced by Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Christopher Rothgery at a later date.
Roufail is accused of groping the women at Superior Medical Sleep Lab at 959 Cooper Foster Park Road, where he is no longer employed.
Two of the victims have sued Roufail. One of the women, who suffered from sleep apnea, said she was molested by him while she was scheduled to sleep overnight at the clinic for testing from April 9 to 10 last year, according to her lawsuit.
The woman is claiming the sleep lab failed to perform an appropriate background check and supervise Roufail during his employment and they should not have allowed Roufail to be the only employee at the Amherst clinic while several women were sleeping there. She also says the lab should have been monitored with videotape and television screens both for medical testing and to provide additional security for the patients.
jgreen@MorningJournal.com
ELYRIA — A former Amherst sleep lab technician has pleaded no contest to charges he groped five women that sought therapy at the lab.
Mina N. Roufail, 23, of Parma Heights, pleaded no contest yesterday to five counts each of sexual imposition and gross sexual imposition. He will be sentenced by Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Christopher Rothgery at a later date.
Roufail is accused of groping the women at Superior Medical Sleep Lab at 959 Cooper Foster Park Road, where he is no longer employed.
Two of the victims have sued Roufail. One of the women, who suffered from sleep apnea, said she was molested by him while she was scheduled to sleep overnight at the clinic for testing from April 9 to 10 last year, according to her lawsuit.
The woman is claiming the sleep lab failed to perform an appropriate background check and supervise Roufail during his employment and they should not have allowed Roufail to be the only employee at the Amherst clinic while several women were sleeping there. She also says the lab should have been monitored with videotape and television screens both for medical testing and to provide additional security for the patients.
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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on
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This is why we record everything in our lab. People like this give the industry a bad name.
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Permalink Reply by RichM on
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Mike, The sleep lab that I use has at least 2 people at anytime. It is very sad that this ever happen and it just causes more problems when it is hard enough for some people to even have testing done with all the wires and sleeping in a different bed with knowing that someone is watching you to have this happen also would cause a lot of trust issues to go alone with their sleeping problems. There is a very special place where all these type of sick people go when they leave this world.
Thanks Rich M.
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My lab also requires 2 techs at all times.
RichM said:Mike, The sleep lab that I use has at least 2 people at anytime. It is very sad that this ever happen and it just causes more problems when it is hard enough for some people to even have testing done with all the wires and sleeping in a different bed with knowing that someone is watching you to have this happen also would cause a lot of trust issues to go alone with their sleeping problems. There is a very special place where all these type of sick people go when they leave this world.
Thanks Rich M.
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Permalink Reply by BPLink on
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Good that he was quickly caught.
They should give Roufail the maximum sentence, make an example of him for any possible others.
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Permalink Reply by Duane McDade on
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I did not think there was a sleeplab that wasn't monitored by video, is there? I've been to five and they all had video mandated. How old is this story? Anyhow?
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Permalink Reply by sleepycarol on
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During my titration study there was one tech for two patients. No one else was in the building. The tech was a woman, but the other patient was a male.
I know it probably would be a very rare case -- but I wondered what the tech would do if they got a weirdo for a patient that was creepy and they were the only one there. I bet there are areas where, even if they have cameras that are monitoring every room, where the cameras don't pick up. I teach school and we have cameras in all the hallways, common areas, etc. and monitoring the outside -- but there are blind spots where the cameras just don't reach.
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Permalink Reply by Judy on
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I've occasionally been in a chat where sleep techs have joined us. One night one of the techs, a woman tech, was alone in the lab w/one male patient, her other patient never showed. Whilst the patient didn't approach her in any manner he did make a few suggestive remarks while being set up including telling the tech he usually slept nude and wasn't sure he'd be able to sleep in his "shorts". He full well knew there there would be a video and yet instead of sleeping a good portion of the night he obviously enjoyed performing a few "theatrics" and a lewd phone call on his cell phone. So, things happen and such things do happen on occasion, rarely, but .... it was not usual for there to be just the one tech nor just one patient of the opposite sex in this tech's lab.
One of my studies or a titration, I forget which there was just one tech, a woman, me and a male patient but that was due to an unusual circumstance, an unexpected death in the other tech's immediate family.
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We get people all the time asking if they can sleep in the nude. The answer is always no. If you would cover it at the beach it has to be covered here. I did have a woman once that told me what a raving nympho she was while I was hooking her up. I acted like I did not not hear her. The whole time I was thinking this is not cinemax lady.
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Permalink Reply by Daniel on
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Relating this story to another thread, I'm wondering if it is an AASM requirement to have at least two techs, and if the Superior Medical Sleep Lab in Amherst is AASM-acredited.
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Permalink Reply by bonesigh on
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During my first sleep study the tech that hooked me up to all the wires gave me the creeps! He kept standing very close and his, gosh I hate to say this and offend anyone but, flaccid you know what kept brushing here and there on my arm and leg. Yuck!!!! Thank goodness there was a very kind lady there the next time!
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BoneSigh, I would have made a point of reporting that to the sleep lab manager. He gets away w/it long enough w/enough female patients he just might decide to take a next step.
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Rock,
I was in the courtroom when this guy as sentanced (due to my own non-sex related crime, but we won't talk about that). You should have seen him! He had a crapload of family members (at least 8) and his attorney kept saying that the judge should go easy on him because of the shame he brought on his family and that "he was playing juvenile sex games and just experimenting." One of the women showed up to testify against him and I wanted to cheer for her, what courage THAT took. Boy, did he have the wrong judge for easy sentencing. I think he got something like two years prison time and then some probation, the max the judge was allowed. What a jacka**. Hope nothing happens to him in his sleep.
BPLink said:Good that he was quickly caught.
They should give Roufail the maximum sentence, make an example of him for any possible others.
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