The Fukuoka District Court on Monday sentenced a former female nurse to six months in prison, suspended for three years, for removing the toenails of two elderly patients at a hospital in Fukuoka Prefecture in 2007. Prosecutors had sought a 10-month imprisonment for Satomi Ueda, 42, arguing that she caused the two female patients to bleed by clipping their toenails too deep with a nail clipper and such an act ‘‘is not considered proper treatment.’’
Ueda was fired by Kitakyushu Yahata Higashi Hospital in Kitakyushu after the incidents, and according to prosecutors, made false reports to doctors and the patients’ families. Her defense lawyer had claimed that the defendant had no intention of causing the bleeding and there were no problems from a medical standpoint arising from the internal bleeding observed in the patients. According to a complaint filed with the court, Ueda removed the right big toenail of an 89-year-old patient and removed the right big and middle toenails of a 70-year-old, both in June 2007.
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