A 51-year-old Romanian man who sexually assaulted three women at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda has been sentenced to three years and eight months in prison.<\/p>\n
Mihai Csiki, with an address in Germany, was sentenced before Drogheda Circuit Court.<\/p>\n
He had pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault, with two other counts of sexual assault taken into consideration.<\/p>\n
The court heard that the offending took place over a two-day period in March 2022, and that two of the victims were patients in the hospital at the time.<\/p>\n
Csiki was also a patient at the hospital at the time. He had presented with heart palpitations following a 12-hour shift in a meat factory.<\/p>\n
The court heard he had drank a naggin of brandy on the way to the hospital to warm up.<\/p>\n
The three female victims were aged in their 60s and 70s.<\/p>\n
In one case, Csiki entered the room of a woman in her mid-70s and pulled the curtain around her bed.<\/p>\n
He lifted her pyjama top and touched her bare breast, before pulling down her pyjama bottoms and touching her under her clothing.<\/p>\n
The court heard that the woman was unable to scream.<\/p>\n
The man then stopped what he was doing and mumbled something in a foreign language.<\/p>\n
The court heard that the woman’s mind and body went blank.<\/p>\n
She did not make any report but a health care assistant later noticed her distress.<\/p>\n
The same evening, Csiki returned to her room and blew her a kiss.<\/p>\n
The woman pressed the call bell to call staff and made a full disclosure the following morning and he was identified on CCTV.<\/p>\n
Another patient aged in her late 60s met Csiki when she was returning to her room in the hospital.<\/p>\n
At first, the woman mistook him for a physiotherapist. He rubbed her chest and touched her outside her clothing over her chest and crotch area.<\/p>\n
Csiki also assaulted another woman in her early 60s that he met in the hospital.<\/p>\n
She pushed him away after he grabbed her hand, but as she pulled back, became pinned against a wall. The man then touched her over her clothing before moving his head to her crotch area and said and made rude gestures.<\/p>\n
The court heard that after he was arrested, he went to Germany and was later extradited back to Ireland.<\/p>\n
He has been in custody since April 2025.<\/p>\n
Csiki has no previous convictions in this jurisdiction, however the court heard he has a previous conviction for rape, theft and aggravated theft.<\/p>\n
He pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault in this case last November.<\/p>\n
Judge Sin\u00e9ad McMullan said that while it came at a late enough date, it was viewed as a plea of high value, “given the nature of the vulnerable victims in the case”.<\/p>\n
She said that Csiki was a 51-year-old man, a father of five children, whose first wife had died and he had since remarried.<\/p>\n
He also had a young child with medical issues and has a number of heart issues himself.<\/p>\n
Outlining the background to the case, Judge McMullan said that he was of a Romany background, that he was not a man of any means at all, and had come here to work and send money back to his family.<\/p>\n
Judge McMullan said that the first woman was a vulnerable person aged in her mid 70s.<\/p>\n
She said the two other incidents were more minor, but showed a pattern of offending.<\/p>\n
She took account of mitigating factors, including his guilty plea, saying this meant that the three women did not have to give evidence.<\/p>\n
The judge said that she heard his apology in court today and previously received a letter of apology, but that said he displayed limited insight and remorse.<\/p>\n
She also took account of the fact that he has a child who is ill, his own childhood adversity and the difficulties someone like him with little or no English would have serving time in prison here.<\/p>\n
She imposed a sentence of three years and eight months, backdated to 30 April 2025.<\/p>\n
Judge McMullan wished the three victims in the case well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 51-year-old Romanian man who sexually assaulted three women at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-427221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}