Tragedy! Nurse Sexually Assaults A Brain Dead Patient, Gets Jailed For 15 Years [PHOTOS]

A nursing assistant in Englewood, Colorado, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a patient.

Julie Henson (above with father), who is brain dead, was sexually assaulted multiple times by one of her nurses

The parent of a brain dead patient, Julie Henson, had set up a video camera to monitor their daughter's progress at the hospital but only for it to capture 34-year-old Paul Bugarcic sexually abusing the unconscious patient.

Convicted! Paul Bugarcic (above) was caught on camera assaulting Julie

Beauty! Julie Henson (above) before the accident that struck her brain dead

Bugaric is a certified nursing assistant at Cherry Hills Health Care Center in Englewood, Colorado, while the victim who is brain dead has been unable to speak or walk since 2011 after a co-worker out of a simple prank pulled a chair out from underneath her and she hit her head.

Julie's father told CBS 4 Denver that:

She couldn’t even fight back, she couldn’t say anything. And if we didn't have that camera in there to catch it, he would've kept on doing it.

The pathetic part of the story is that Julie's family trusted Bugarcic because they knew him too well.

According to Julie's mother, Debbie Henson, she couldn't believe her eyes when she saw the video which exposed what Bugarcic did.

I watched it and I went, "No," she said.

Still hopeful: Julie's parents still believe that their daughter (above) will return to her old self eventually

Her family also said Julie had been making progress in terms of recovering which was why they decided to set up the hidden camera to monitor her status until she suffered the assault at the hands of Bugarcic.

This guy doing what he did to her took the progress she had and dropped it back about a year,' Debbie said.

Devastated: Julie's father and mother Debbie (above) say what Bugarcic did has set Julie's recovery back by a year

However, they're still hopeful that they will get back the old Julie.

She’s all in there. The poor thing is just trapped in her body, Debbie said.

Despite the 15 years prison sentence, Bugarcic will also spend five years on sex offender probation. [Source: CBS 4 Denver]

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