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Ermiyas Isaac Dangerfield, 28, has been sentenced to 12 months in jail after admitting to sexually assaulting a nurse in a hospital parkade.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis mental health challenges have contributed to impaired judgment and reduced impulse control, although they do not negate his ability to understand his actions,\u201d said provincial court Judge Victoria Cornick.<\/p>\n
Court was told the victim was preparing to start her shift at St. Boniface General Hospital around 11 p.m. on Nov. 8, 2025. She was walking through the hospital parkade when Dangerfied approached her as she was \u201ceffectively trapped\u201d between two cars. Dangerfield told the woman he was going to hug her and made \u201cunwanted physical contact\u201d with her breasts.<\/p>\n
According to a report provided to court, Dangerfield later said he knew his actions would get him in trouble and possibly arrested.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe conduct was purposeful and he acted (with) sexual intent,\u201d Cornick said.<\/p>\n
Dangerfield had been released from jail just four days before the assault after being sentenced to six months of time served for a number of theft and robbery offences.<\/p>\n
In 2025, Dangerfield was sentenced to four months in jail for two sexual assaults. Court was told that in one instance, Dangerfield grabbed the buttocks of a woman in Winnipeg Square, in another he approached a woman downtown and tried to sell her a chocolate bar. Dangerfield told the woman \u201cI really like your thighs and butt.\u201d When the woman turned to walk away, he grabbed her buttocks.<\/p>\n
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Court has heard Dangerfield is from Ethiopia and his mother died as the result of an HIV-related illness. He was adopted by a Winnipeg family when he was four or five years old.<\/p>\n
Dangerfield\u2019s mental state deteriorated as a teenager, and his parents had him admitted to the Manitoba Adolescent Treatment Centre.<\/p>\n
His parents placed him in the care of Child and Family Services when he was 17. He remained with CFS until he was 19, at which time he became a ward of the public trustee.<\/p>\n
Following one stint in custody on robbery charges, Dangerfield was released in the middle of winter with no connection to community resources and he lost all of his fingers to frostbite.<\/p>\n
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Dean Pritchard Dean Pritchard is courts reporter for the Free Press. He has covered the justice system since 1999, working for the Brandon Sun and Winnipeg Sun before joining the Free Press in 2019. Read more about Dean<\/a>.<\/p>\n Every piece of reporting Dean produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print \u2014 part of the Free Press\u2018s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press\u2019s history and mandate<\/a>, and learn how our newsroom operates<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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