{"id":427994,"date":"2026-05-02T02:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427994\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:38:10","slug":"man-jailed-over-sexual-assaults-of-three-women-at-drogheda-hospital-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427994\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed over sexual assaults of three women at Drogheda hospital \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man (51) who sexually assaulted three women at Our Lady of Lourdes hospital<\/a> in Drogheda<\/a> while he was a patient there has been jailed.<\/p>\n

Mihai Csiki, a Romanian national with an address in Germany, had pleaded guilty earlier this year to one count of sexual assault with two other similar counts taken into consideration.<\/p>\n

The court heard he sexually assaulted a then-74-year-old female patient on March 6th, 2022, when he pulled the curtains around her bed, placed his hand on her bare skin and moved his head towards her crotch area.<\/p>\n

The victim was at first too traumatised to report the incident but later that evening disclosed what had happened.<\/p>\n

On the same day, the defendant sexually assaulted a 69-year-old woman when she had returned to her room after having a smoke outside. That incident was captured on CCTV.<\/p>\n

In a victim impact statement, the woman described being left feeling very intimidated, fearful and scared by her ordeal and now becoming frightened when she sees men who resemble the defendant.<\/p>\n

Judge Sin\u00e9ad McMullan was also told that on March 5th, 2022, the defendant had sexually assaulted a third victim, in her 60s, as she left a changing room.<\/p>\n

The court heard the defendant had been a patient in the hospital, as he had suffered palpitations after a 12-hour shift in a meat factory\u2019s chill room and later drank brandy to warm himself up.<\/p>\n

Defence barrister Feargal Kavanagh SC told the court the consumption of the brandy had affected his client\u2019s judgment. <\/p>\n

He said his client expressed genuine remorse for his actions and consented to being deported on his release from prison.<\/p>\n

Speaking through an interpreter, the defendant apologised for his behaviour.<\/p>\n

The judge noted the offences had been opportunistic and the victims had been vulnerable.<\/p>\n

She expressed concern that a probation report had highlighted the defendant\u2019s lack of remorse, but added his guilty plea was of benefit to the victims.<\/p>\n

The judge sentenced the defendant to three years and eight months, backdated to April 30th, 2025, when he went into custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man (51) who sexually assaulted three women at Our Lady of Lourdes hospital in Drogheda while he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12210,61,60,187017,9689,43],"class_list":["post-427994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-drogheda","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lourdes-hospital","tag-louth","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427994","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=427994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}