Yeah, yeah, he served his time, but some crimes should permanently bar a person from working in certain capacities.http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rapist-fired31-2009jan31,0,6489282.story?page=1Rapist worked at L.A. County hospitals despite reviews of record
X-ray technologist was allowed to work alone with female patients at two medical facilities although managers knew about his criminal past, public documents show.By Garrett Therolf
January 31, 2009
A man who raped women as an on-duty Los Angeles police officer, threatening them with arrest and jail if they did not submit, was hired by Los Angeles County as an X-ray technologist after he got out of prison, even though the job would leave him working alone and unsupervised with female patients.
His hiring at County-USC Medical Center a decade ago was not an oversight.
The man -- whose actions cost the city of Los Angeles nearly $300,000 in settlements for his victims -- disclosed his criminal history in his county job application. Both the head of hospital human resources and a chief aide then signed papers that said there was no reason his convictions for rape should prevent him from doing the job, according to newly obtained records and interviews.
It would not be the last time managers in the county health department would evaluate his criminal record. Each time he was promoted, someone at a management level reviewed his history. It was reviewed again in 2004, when he transferred to Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, then known as Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center.
County officials quietly fired Gariner Beasley, 48, last August -- a month after The Times uncovered the widespread incidence of serious criminal histories among King's staff -- saying managers had erred repeatedly in allowing him to be hired and remain on the job.
-------------------------
The woman, now 46, spoke on the condition that The Times identify her by her nickname Chee Chee. At the time of the 1991 attack, she worked as a prostitute south of downtown Los Angeles.
Just after 6 a.m. one day, Beasley, in uniform, honked at her from his squad car as she walked on South Figueroa Street.
"He yelled, 'Come here, I need to talk to you,' " she said. "He said I had a $200,000 warrant on me, which was a total lie. He said, 'You better give me something to make this go away.' "
He ordered her into the passenger seat, removed his badge and drove her to a back alley where he popped the trunk so they would not be seen through the rear window, she said.
"What he did to me was terrible," she said. "I just remember how he thought he was a great comedian, patting me on the knee after he was finished with me. He said with a chuckle, 'Now, that wasn't so bad, was it?' And there I was curled over in tears."
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
