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TX doctor accused of raping hospital patient

By KSN.com / KTRK  
   October 12, 2015

A Texas doctor is accused of repeatedly raping a patient while she was confined to a hospital bed. The alleged incidents happened two years ago. Prosecutors now say they have evidence linking the 43-year-old doctor to the attacks. The woman was a patient in a fifth floor room at Ben Taub Hospital where she was admitted for a medical procedure on the night of November 2nd. Investigators say the then 27 year old woman says she was sexually assaulted three times by the same man, now identified as Dr Shafeeq Sheikh.

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