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Bucks County Nurse Assistant Charged With Indecent Contact With Sleeping Patient

A 53-year-old Bucks County nurse has turned himself for inappropriately.touching a sleeping patient last fall, authorities said.

Walter Howard Burns

Walter Howard Burns

Photo Credit: Central Bucks Regional Police Department

Walter Howard Burns, of Doylestown PA, turned himself in on Tuesday related to an incident that took place on Oct. 3 at the Harborview Care & Rehab Center in Doylestown, according to Central Bucks Regional Police Department.

 Burns, a certified nurse assistant employed by Harborview at the time of the incident, allegedly had indecent contact with a victim while he slept at 3 a.m. in the patient’s room at the facility, police said.

Burns was arraigned and released on $25,000 bail, unsecured with conditions. 

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