Mt Waverley nurse Charitha Mahesh Weralugolla fronts court over sexual assault charge
A nurse from a major eastern suburbs hospital has been hauled before a court after he allegedly repeatedly tried to kiss and feel up a staff member after agreeing to drive her home after work.
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An eastern suburbs nurse has fronted court over serious sexual assault allegations brought against him by a female staff member.
Charitha Mahesh Weralugolla, of Mt Waverley, appeared at the Ringwood Magistrates’ Court yesterday over the alleged incident on November 4 in 2018.
Senior Constable Anthony Christensen told the court he was on duty at Forest Hill police station when a woman visited about 10.50pm and told him she’d been the victim of an assault.
The woman told them she had just finished a shift at the Monash Medical Centre in Clayton when she caught a lift home with her colleague, Mr Weralugolla, who lived near her about 9.30pm.
During the car trip the woman told police Mr Weralugolla repeatedly begged her for “a kiss, just one kiss”, Sen-Constable Christensen told the court, to which he said she told him “no” and eventually asked to be let out of the car.
Mr Weralugolla stopped and let the woman out on Springvale Rd, but eventually coaxed her back into the car by telling her he would not ask her for a kiss again, Sen-Constable Christensen told the court.
But when the woman got back in the car, Sen-Constable Christensen said the woman told police Mr Weralugolla accelerated quickly and reached over and began rubbing her leg hard and grabbing her breasts.
He continued to touch her despite her asking him what he was doing and she eventually opened the car door and threatened to jump out of the moving vehicle if Mr Weralugolla didn’t stop and let her out, Sen-Constable Christensen said.
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Another one of the woman’s colleagues told the court she received a call that night from the woman telling her what happened.
And the woman’s ex-boyfriend, who was in a relationship with her at the time of the alleged offence, told the court he received a call from the distraught woman after the alleged assault and what she told him made him feel “sick”.
“(She) said he tried to touch her and kiss her while he was driving,” the man told the court.
“I felt sick about it.”
The hearing before Magistrate Tim Walsh continues.