Paxton Greer was in crisis when she arrived at HCA’s Trident Medical Center in Charleston, South Carolina, on Aug. 31, 2023. After trying to end her life, Greer was heavily sedated, she told NBC News, and experiencing convulsions when Tyler Eoute, a 27-year-old medical technician, helped her into a bathroom.
He sexually assaulted her there and two more times in her hospital bed, she said. “I will never forget his face over mine,” Greer recalled, “three freckles on his cheek, and him saying, ‘Don’t worry, I am very good at what I do.’”
Greer told the hospital staff that she was being tortured, according to a lawsuit she later filed against the facility, HCA Healthcare and Eoute. “I told so many people,” Greer, 28, recalled in an interview. “I yelled: ‘He touched me! He touched me! He assaulted me!’ No one listened.”
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