Updated at p. A former Grand Junction nurse will spend two decades in prison for sexually assaulting unconscious patients beginning in Christopher Lambros, 62, pleaded guilty Friday in Mesa County to six counts of attempted sexual assault, a class 5 felony, with each carrying a sentence of three years and eight months.
Lambros was credited with days of pre-sentence confinement on each count for the period he's been in jail prior to Friday's proceedings. Some victims were in attendance for the sentencing. Ahead of the hearing, they waited outside the courtroom, exchanging hugs. Colorado Public Radio does not identify the victims of sexual assault. Lambros was arrested in October According to the arrest affidavit, law enforcement received a report in July of that year of him allegedly taking photos of an unconscious female patient whose breasts and genitalia were exposed.
Subsequent investigation found that Lambros had significant amounts of data that included more photos and videos, requiring the assistance of the U. Secret Service to process. Lambros was a nurse at St. Twenty-first Judicial District Attorney Dan Rubinstein said the investigation suggests 13 individual victims, but only five could be identified.
Rubinstein said not every victim could be identified by name, but they were able to identify individual cases and track down patients with the help of St. An employee walked in on Lambros assaulting a patient in , prompting the investigation.
In a statement to the court she said she and other St. In a statement Friday night, St. Burrill explained there were delays in the plea deal because of the difficulty in parsing through digital photos and videos in evidence. Burrill noted that the significant volume of data, reported to be 4 terabytes, did not reflect an overwhelming cache of photos and videos, but rather the dense way the data was collected and processed.
