Jane Doe vs. Citrus Memorial Hospital Inc.

Case Background

On March 4, 2022, Plaintiff Christy Lynn Trimbath filed a Sexual Assault lawsuit in the Florida State, Circuit Court of Citrus County (Case number: 2022 CA 000134 A). Judge Carola Falvey presided over the case.

Cause

Jane Doe, a resident of Idaho over 65 years old, was admitted to Citrus Memorial Hospital (CMH) in Inverness, Florida, on January 5, 2021, for a medical condition. That evening, CMH nurse Hiram Bonilla taped a bed pad over Doe's room window, injected her with morphine, and sexually assaulted her multiple times between 10 PM and 2:30 AM. When CMH learned of the assaults around 2 AM, it waited 6 hours to report the incidents to law enforcement. During this time, CMH informed Bonilla of the allegations and instructed him to leave, interviewed witnesses, planted Bonilla's false narrative, allowed staff to verbally assault Doe, moved her to another room, and cleaned the crime scene. CMH had prior knowledge of sexual assaults committed by nurses on its premises, including 41 settled claims from 2005 and multiple assaults by nurse Mark Miskar between 2016 and 2020. Bonilla had a prior accusation of sexually assaulting a minor patient at another hospital in 2016 before CMH hired him.

Injuries

As a result of the sexual assaults and CMH's subseque