A nursing assistant in Englewood, Colorado, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a patient
Paul Bugarcic, 34, sexually assaulted Julie Henson, who is brain dead, multiple times
Her parents caught him on a video camera they had set up to monitor their daughter's progress
'She couldn’t even fight back, she couldn’t say (anything),' Julie’s father told CBS 4 Denver.
'And if we didn't have that camera in there to catch it, he would've kept on doing it.'
Making things even worse was the fact that the family knew, and trusted, Bugarcic.
Julie's mother, Debbie Henson, says when she watched the video, she could not believe what she was seeing.
'I watched it and I went, "No,"' she said.
Julie began suffering severe headaches back in 2011 after a coworker pulled a chair out from underneath her and she hit her head.
She soon had brain swelling and then a cyst.
The doctors who preformed surgery on her said that there was a 'one in a million chance something might go wrong,' and it did, leaving Julie severely brain injured.
Her family said Julie had been making amazing progress however, which is why they decided to set up the inconspicuous camera in her room, until the sexual assault began 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.
They still have hope however that they will get the old Julie back.
'She’s all in there. The poor thing is just trapped in her body,' Debbie said.
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