ContraCostaTimes.com – By Mike Cruz, Staff Writer
A former hospital technician was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation and time in county jail after he admitted to committing a lewd act with a patient under his care.
Daniel I. Alawoya, a former tech at Patton State Hospital near Highland, was sentenced by Judge Robert J. Lemkau under the terms of a plea bargain reached Aug. 26 in San Bernardino Superior Court.
Alawoya, 58, was arrested in March after a transgender male patient alleged the defendant forcefully had sex with him. DNA evidence from the patient’s under clothing matched Alawoya, according to a Probation Department pre-sentencing report.