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A care worker has gone on trial accused of a "pitiless" sex attack on an elderly dementia patient at a nursing home in Powys. A care worker begged a colleague to lie for him after he sexually assaulted an elderly dementia patient at a home in Powys, Cardiff Crown Court has heard.
Cardiff Crown Court heard the assault on the woman, 77, at Mountain's Home at Libanus near Brecon "defied belief". Gareth Jones, 22, is accused of a "shocking, pitiless" attack on the 77-year-old when he took her to get ready for bed at Mountain's Home at Libanus.
She lost blood and needed emergency surgery in hospital to save her life. But the court heard he was forced to raise the alarm when the woman started bleeding as a result of her injuries.
Care assistant Gareth Jones, 22, denies sexual activity and alternative charges of wounding with intent and unlawful wounding. Mr Jones denies sexual activity and alternative wounding charges.
The trial heard how the elderly woman needed emergency surgery to save her life.
Mr Jones was supposed to be paired with a female colleague on the night of the alleged attack. "She was subjected to a shocking, pitiless sexual assault by Jones which left her with painful and harrowing injuries. Ieuan Morris, prosecuting
Senior care assistant at the nursing home near Brecon, Rebecca Morante, told the jury Mr Jones asked her to lie to the police.
He asked her to say he had worked alongside the woman at all times that night but she refused, Mrs Morante said.
"He was begging us not to tell them," she said.
"We said we were sorry but we couldn't lie for him. I'd told him many times before that he should not work alone."
Mrs Morante found Mr Jones in the patient's room after she responded to an emergency alarm.
Collapsing
She told the jury: "He was shaking saying' You've got to help me I'm going to vomit'
"I asked him: 'What are you doing here alone?' He didn't answer me then because he was still shaky. I told him to sit down because I was worried about him collapsing," Mrs Morante added.
She said she asked Mr Jones what happened and he told her the patient had started bleeding immediately he removed a pad she was wearing.
But she told the jury that she had found no blood on the pad.
The court had earlier heard claims the attack on the woman "defied belief".
Ieuan Morris, prosecuting, said Mr Jones had inflicted her injury in a "cruel and deplorable sexual or sadistic act" in February 2007.Ieuan Morris, prosecuting, said Mr Jones had inflicted her injury in a "cruel and deplorable sexual or sadistic act" in February 2007.
"Had she not undergone emergency treatment at hospital she could well have died because she lost so much blood," Mr Morris added."Had she not undergone emergency treatment at hospital she could well have died because she lost so much blood," Mr Morris added.
"She was subjected to a shocking, pitiless sexual assault by Jones which left her with painful and harrowing injuries. It defies belief that a person of Jones' age could have behaved in such a callous and perverted way." "She was subjected to a shocking, pitiless sexual assault by Jones which left her with painful and harrowing injuries."
Mr Morris said the injury occurred while Mr Jones, who had been a care assistant at the home for two years, was in the woman's bedroom after taking her up to bed.
Nursing guidelines recommend carers work in pairs but Mr Jones was working alone on the night of the attack, the jury heard.Nursing guidelines recommend carers work in pairs but Mr Jones was working alone on the night of the attack, the jury heard.
Mr Jones, from Trecastle near Brecon, started off as a kitchen assistant before being promoted to a carer role. Mr Jones, from Trecastle near Brecon, started off as a kitchen assistant before gaining promotion to the carer role two years earlier.
The trial is continuing. Mr Morris told the trial nine days after the alleged attack checks were carried out at the home.
He said: "It was established there existed a high standard of care at the nursing home and there were no grounds for concerns from the observations."
Mr Jones denies sexual activity, wounding with intent and unlawful wounding and the trial continues.