Ramon Garcia, 33, a former medical assistant at Carbon Health Urgent Care location in Jenkintown (Abington Township) who is accused of groping, spying on, and sexually assaulting women while posing as a nurse, has been sentenced five to 10 years in prison for sexual assault, 6ABC reported.
He is also required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Garcia is now facing four lawsuits intended to hold him and the urgent-care operator accountable.
Hours before the sentencing, one of his victims filed a lawsuit in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, The Inquirer said. According to the complaint, the then-21-year-old woman arrived for an appointment on March 9, 2024 and met Garcia at the front desk, who introduced himself as a nurse. He walked her to an exam room where he groped her chest and genitals.
“My relationships with loved ones has changed. I’m not the same person I was,” the woman told a judge on Monday during Garcia’s sentencing. “My sense of confidence has shattered, and I view the world through a lens of fear.”
The lawsuit claims that the first known assault took place in November 2023, and Carbon Health allowed the assaults to continue through March.
In a response to an earlier lawsuit, Carbon Health said it was not liable for Garcia’s actions because he acted outside of the scope of his employment as a front-desk staffer.
In December 2024, Garcia pleaded guilty to multiple charges of aggravated indecent assault, attempted aggravated indecent assault, invasion of privacy and attempted invasion of privacy, indecent assault and performing actions under false pretenses in connection with inappropriate conduct between November 2023 and March 2024.
Garcia was convicted of sexually assaulting 13 women by posing as a nurse. Reportedly a father of six, he is additionally prohibited from working in the medical field as a result of his conviction.
He was arrested on March 12 for Aggravated Indecent Assault (2nd degree felony), Indecent Assault, and (2) counts of Invasion of Privacy.
On April 12, 2024, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele and Abington Township Police Chief Patrick Molloy announced that 24 felony and misdemeanor criminal charges involving 12 additional victims had been filed against Garcia.
In May 2024, Garcia waived his preliminary hearing.
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