from Christian Concern
St Helier Hospital in Carshalton is under fire after being exposed that it waited a year to probe racist abuse experienced by a Christian nurse at the hands of a transgender paedophile patient.
Since the incident in May 2024, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals had instead chosen to discipline, investigate, and give a final written warning to Jennifer Melle for indirectly calling a six-foot transgender paedophile patient ‘Mr’ while on the phone to a doctor.
For doing so, ‘Mr X’, lunged at Jennifer and called her a n***** three times for referring to him as a man.
Mr X is in a men’s prison after being convicted for luring boys into the sex acts on the internet while pretending to be a woman.
Despite Jennifer raising what she had experienced during an investigation into the incident, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals chose to ignore the abuse and instead gave her a final written warning and reported her to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
The NMC confirmed they would be scrutinising Jennifer’s fitness to practice as a nurse because she posed a ‘risk’ to the public and the reputation of the NHS for not using the patient’s preferred gender identity.
Only after Jennifer went public with her story, and the Trust faced media scrutiny, did they apologise publicly and say they would investigate the racist abuse. No one at the hospital or Trust has apologised to Jennifer directly.