A Wisconsin judge denounced a nurse who had sex with her patient — and later admitted to wrongly accusing them of sexual assault — as “an embarrassment to nurses everywhere” during her sentencing hearing.
The woman, Melissa Knutson, was sentenced on Friday, February 27, to one year and six months in prison in connection with her alleged sexual assault of a patient who had been participating in drug court, the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office announced in a Monday, March 2, news release.
Knutson, 30, was accused of having sex with the patient multiple times while she was working as a nu...
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