COBB COUNTY, Ga.,None — A Cobb County jury found a former respiratory therapist guilty on a dozen charges, including sexual battery on Monday afternoon.
Jurors found Eugene Ellis guilty of 12 of the 20 charges against him. Prosecutors said Ellis sexually assaulted five women at Kennestone Hospital where he worked. Four of the women were hospital patients.
Ellis denied the allegations and said his accusers were trying to cash in on a civil lawsuit. Four of the five victims have a civil suit pending against Kennestone Hospital.
Ellis maintained his innocence in the trial. He showed jurors how his job as a respiratory therapist required him to touch his patients all over the upper parts of their body. Ellis also said he did not remember treating all of the victims in the case.
Channel 2's Ross Cavitt was in the courtroom when the verdict came down. He said Ellis did not immediately react when the jury's verdict was read. Later after tearfully looking at his family in the courtroom, Ellis put his head in his hands, Cavitt said.
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