After a Brooklyn patient went public with allegations of sexual abuse inside Brookdale Hospital, a male nurse has been arrested and charged with sex crimes.<\/p>\n
According to a complaint filed by the Brooklyn District Attorney\u2019s Office, Kuriakose Poulose, a nurse who was working the overnight shift on December 5, 2025, entered a female patient\u2019s hospital room and began to rub her private parts without her consent. The patient reported the alleged sex crime to police the following morning, but it wasn\u2019t until this month that Poulose was arrested and charged with sexual abuse, forcible touching, and harassment.<\/p>\n
The arrest came one week after the patient told her story in an exclusive interview with the NBC New York I-Team.<\/p>\n
\u201cThings tend to move slowly, but we\u2019re thankful that at this point the appropriate authorities have taken notice of this very serious incident,\u201d said Nicholas Liakas, the patient\u2019s attorney. \u201cObviously we\u2019ll be looking into it further to see if there are other victims.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boris Nektalov, the defense attorney representing Poulose said his client voluntarily surrendered to police and pleaded not guilty to the charges, which are misdemeanors.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe strongly denies these allegations and is presumed innocent,\u201d Nektalov said. \u201cWe will not try this case in the media, especially where there is a pending criminal case as well as a pending civil lawsuit seeking monetary damages and other civil relief based on allegations that have not been proven in any court.\u201d<\/p>\n
The patient, who asked that her name be withheld due to the sensitivity of the allegations, has filed a lawsuit against One Brooklyn Health, the owner of Brookdale Hospital. The suit alleges the hospital put patients at risk by hiring Poulose, in part because he had been accused of improperly touching women in the past.<\/p>\n
According to a disciplinary order issued by the New Jersey Board of Nursing, Poulose engaged in professional misconduct in 2020 and 2021, when he failed to disclose allegations from two female patients and a female co-worker who said he groped them. Poulose denied the allegations, but he was ordered to attend a monitoring program because state policy requires nurses to report incidents involving \u201cboundary violations.\u201d<\/p>\n
The lawsuit filed by the Brooklyn patient accuses hospital administrators of neglecting their duty to conduct \u201cadequate background and licensing checks\u201d that would have revealed red flags in his record.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just disgusting. I don\u2019t know why they didn\u2019t take the time to do the proper things before they hired this person,\u201d the patient told the I-Team.<\/p>\n
Citing the criminal investigation, One Brooklyn Health has declined to discuss its background check procedures or the patient\u2019s claims of sexual abuse. Brookdale Hospital has also declined to say whether Kuriakose Poulose remains employed by the facility.<\/p>\n
According to licensing records maintained by the New York State Office of the Professions, Poulose remained eligible to work as a registered nurse in New York as of July 8 \u2013 more than a week after he was arrested.<\/p>\n
In response to questions from the I-Team last month, the New York State Office of the Professions, which regulates nursing, said all criminal convictions are deemed \u201cprofessional misconduct\u201d by state regulators. But the office did not specify whether pending criminal cases \u2013 those still awaiting trial \u2013 can result in temporary suspensions of nursing licenses.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder Education Law, the Department cannot comment on a specific case,\u201d wrote a spokesperson. \u201cIn any case where there is sufficient evidence of professional misconduct, the Department will pursue disciplinary action to the extent possible in accordance with Education Law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a Brooklyn patient went public with allegations of sexual abuse inside Brookdale Hospital, a male nurse has…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":921992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,1035,57511,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-921991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-brooklyn","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-i-team","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116887156895189116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}