Nurse charged with sexual assault at Rolla hospital

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A 42-year-old traveling nurse was charged Monday with sexually assaulting a patient in the Phelps Health hospital emergency room.

James H. Todd, 42, was in the Phelps County Jail on Tuesday on a no-bond warrant for two counts of first-degree sodomy, one count of first-degree rape and a count of first-degree sexual abuse. An initial appearance was set for Tuesday morning.

Court documents state that Todd assaulted an intoxicated woman who was in the emergency room for low potassium Thursday night. Todd forced the woman to perform sex acts and touched her inappropriately, the statement says.

Todd denied the accusations in an interview, but security video captured the assault on video, the statement says.