{"id":244337,"date":"2026-04-24T05:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244337\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:24:09","slug":"nurse-groped-sedated-patient-at-florida-hospital-deputies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244337\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse groped sedated patient at Florida hospital, deputies say"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brief<\/p>\n

The Osceola County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested Carlos Herrera on charges of abuse of a disabled adult and lewd and lascivious act.<\/p>\n

Deputies said Herrera groped a female patient who was recovering from the effects of anesthesia following a procedure.<\/p>\n

Deputies want anyone who believes they may be a victim to contact them.<\/p>\n

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – A nurse accused by the Osceola County Sheriff\u2019s Office of groping a female patient at AdventHealth Celebration was arrested in March.<\/p>\n

Carlos Herrera is charged with abuse of a disabled adult because deputies said the woman was still groggy from the anesthesia and a lewd and lascivious act. Herrera has since bonded out of jail. The judge set bail at $30,000.<\/p>\n

The backstory<\/p>\n

According to deputies, Herrera groped the patient March 16 after she had an endoscopy. According to an affidavit for an arrest warrant, the woman told deputies Herrera called her name twice, but she could not answer or open her eyes because she was still affected by the anesthesia.<\/p>\n

According to the sheriff\u2019s office, the woman told deputies the suspect reached down her hospital gown and groped her. That\u2019s when, according to the affidavit, she woke up and the suspect said he was trying to flip her on the bed.<\/p>\n

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Deputies said the woman reported the incident to the nurse assigned to her and then hospital security called 911.<\/p>\n

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Deputies arrested Herrera on March 25.<\/p>\n

Deputies want anyone who believes they are a victim to contact them. The non-emergency line is (407) 348-2222.<\/p>\n

Deputies said as of April 22, they have not received any other complaints against Herrera.<\/p>\n

AdventHealth placed the suspect on leave March 16.<\/p>\n

What they’re saying<\/p>\n

Osceola Sheriff\u2019s Office Captain Kim Montes said there could be more victims because the suspect was not the woman\u2019s assigned nurse.<\/p>\n

“Our concern is it\u2019s easier for somebody that way to be more stealth because an assigned nurse is going to be documented in and out of that room with that patient,” Montes said.
Deputies said the woman took a picture of the suspect at the hospital.<\/p>\n

“She was a great witness,” Montes said. “She was able to pick him out of a photo lineup instantaneously and that just helps with the prosecution of the suspect and our whole goal is that he doesn\u2019t have the opportunity to do this to somebody else.”<\/p>\n

AdventHealth released a statement:<\/p>\n

“Patient safety is our highest priority. We take concerns like this seriously,” AdventHealth wrote in a statement to FOX 35 News. “In accordance with our policy, we immediately placed the team member on leave March 16th after the allegation was made, and he remains on leave.”<\/p>\n

What’s next<\/p>\n

The suspect\u2019s next court date was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n

The Source<\/p>\n

FOX 35 News interviewed a spokesperson for the Osceola County Sheriff\u2019s Office, reviewed the affidavit for the arrest warrant, and received a statement from AdventHealth to put together this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief The Osceola County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested Carlos Herrera on charges of abuse of a disabled adult…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100565,107652,1071,28,30,29,107653,1976,29765],"class_list":["post-244337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-adventhealth-celebration","tag-carlos-herrera","tag-deputies","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-lewd-and-lascivious","tag-osceola-county","tag-osceola-county-sheriffs-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}