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A hospital security guard who kicked a vulnerable dementia patient has avoided jail after a judge heard he had not had the proper training.

Austin Eboh admitted he 'lost his temper' and attacked the man leaving him with a cut to his ankle and 'psychological damage'.

The 27-year-old claimed he had received no training in how to deal with 'difficult patients' and had become frustrated when the dementia sufferer became violent and aggressive.

The victim, who cannot be named, had been assigned security staff because of the threat he posed to other patients and staff at Kent and Canterbury Hospital.

Eboh, of Sittingbourne, Kent, had been totally unprepared for the challenging role, the court heard.

'The day in question was only my second night working with a patient. I had been given no training in dealing with patients generally, let alone difficult patients,' said the security guard.

'My understanding of the job was to prevent this man from using violence against staff and other patients.'

Eboh was subsequently sacked from his job at Rightguard Security which has since implemented new training measures.

Sparing him jail, Judge Simon James told him: 'It is clear you were unprepared and untrained for the difficult role you were entrusted with.

'Dealing with people with serious mental health issues requires compassion, patience and understanding.

'Clearly you had none of those characteristics.'

The judge added the guard had been warned about the inappropriateness of his conduct prior to the attack but had persisted in using physical force.

Canterbury Crown Court heard how several shocked patients witnessed the incident in November 2013.

However, Eboh claimed that he had been assaulted by victim first and sustained an injury before he lashed out.

He said: 'On the night in question, this patient was being particularly violent and aggressive.

'During my shift he attempted to bite me, spit at me, kick me, throw pillows and bed sheets at me and twist my arm. I had to visit the minor injuries unit for an injury caused to my wrist the following day.

'I accept that in the course of my shift, I suffered a momentary loss of temper,' he added.

His barrister Kieran Brand said the father-of-one, who moved from Nigeria in 2010, 'simply wasn't qualified' to deal with the dementia patient.

'He did abuse his position of trust but he had received no training whatsoever to deal with that sort of situation,' he added.

Mr Brand added the guard didn't asked for help because he feared he would lose his job.

Eboh pleaded guilty to assaulting the man while a second charge of ill-treatment, which the ex-guard denied, was left on file.

He was handed a nine-month prison sentence suspended for 18 months, and ordered to do 120 hours of unpaid work for the community.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3194795/Hospital-security-guard-kicked-dementia-patient-avoids-jail-didn-t-right-training.html

KingEbukasBlog:
so mention the religions t[b]hat claim to perform miracles , healings apart from Christianity[/b].... dont attempt to dodge this



Ive not seen one but obviously it should have . I witnessed in a crusade a shorter limb growing into the length of the other

?!!!!

For you Catholics and theist alike ........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3184769/We-not-says-Vatican-Pope-s-chief-astronomer-says-alien-life-exists-unlikely-visited-Jesus.html

i just saw an article where it says human would be having sex with robots in 50 years time....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3185066/Would-sex-robot-Intimate-relationships-machines-norm-50-years-claims-expert.html

plaetton:


At last, the moment of truth arrives.

So, you have been arguing your faith all along, pretending to be presenting facts. Right ?.

Well well, my dumb little friend, Faith and Facts are two different things that exist in two different universes.

You need to learn that, and then desist from making a public fool of yourself.

Okay ?

Oga, e don do.... Am sure there is a spiritual fatwa ordering for your head..... if they knew your address...

freecocoa:
I really really wonder john, really, how can anyone not get it?

because religion teaches you to be close minded and selfish. My journey to atheism started when i asked the simple question "what if". What if i was born a christian would i still think jesus is the lord of lords etc.

K9blunt:
Thanks for saying funeral.
In that case if I catch you eh...... Na now I know say you no gbadun me.

Diaris god ooooo....lol.

i waiting for you to catch me ... I promise I won't be slippery like catfish...

which god ris dia....

K9blunt:
Hahahahahhahaahhaah, bad guy
Me wei be girl I no get strength for momsi tantrums, if she scream SOOOOOO!!!! I hate that thing eh and she knows it. You have to see her to understand why fear no gree me.
You be lucky guy, as per man stuff na.

its not hard na... just walk up to her and tell her everything... thats all....
she wont kill you na....
But if she does, can i come and eat rice at the funeral?

K9blunt:
Ok.......... No but I go by my self due to personal reasons, I tried not going for like 3,4 months after series of reporting,nagging and bantering from my mom and her siblings I just decided to go. But while am there I just think of something else or checkout the handsome guys around *winks*
But if na me dey on my own, church will never see my pweety hair at all!

... may the lord not blind your eyes ohhh. myself i don't go and anyone one that comes bothering me at home, i just carry out my book on Zen Buddhism and you should see them flee. I have no time for pretenses.

K9blunt:
yea I do

and you have to go to church with them? or you just feign sick to stay at home

johnydon22:
[b]Hahahahahaha i don die...

The problem is that you don't know the difference between a claim and an observation.... And you are not even ashamed of it..

Plato observed the constellations in different geographical point and reached a consensus that only a spherical globe could have different constellation views in different location, it was a very simple interpretation of an observation, some may reach a conclusion that it is because the earth rested on a giant turtle..
Observation means it is very clear for all to observe, plato's phenomenon of constellations can as well be observed even now.

It was exactly like Msngr Georges Big bang postulation, he had no proof just like Plato, just a postulation based on observed phenomenon only after the hubble telescope went into orbit was the observation verified ... You see You absolutely have no knowledge of what science is and i am not supposed to start teaching you that.

Too bad you do not know that claiming that a wafer turns into a blood when it is not demonstrative for all just like observing the constellation is, it is a CLAIM and not an observation... Boy you really need to read because you far to engage on a scientific discussion or argument with me.

You could not maintain an argument without spamming the thread with wikipedia copy and paste; quite childish and degrading.

Let us hope you won't ask how an observation and a claim is the same thing [/b]

in a way i think italo is learning although he is being pigheaded about it.

K9blunt:
Oh boi ei! Make maley finnish me, sister me give me one brain resetting slap ke!

Am still in hiding my dear.

i know that feeling. things can be quite difficult being athiest in this climes. I guess you still stay with your folks.

K9blunt:
Thanks bro.

but are your family are cool with your decision or you are still in hiding?

plaetton:
No sir.

What do you mean by the phrase " cannot be explained by natural laws " ?

Don't you first have to know the entire sum of all natural laws, before you can boldly CLAIM that something CANNOT be explained by any natural laws ?

The truth is that we are still trying to understand the natural laws and how they operate at the macro, micro and subatomic levels.

I remind you , once again, like I did the op, that over the past 2000 yrs, newly understood natural laws have explained away tens of thousands of ersthwhile mysteries or spiritual things.

So with this in mind, a supernatural phenomenon is one whose underlying physics has yet to be fully understood or even scientifically studied.

If we plug in Quantum entanglement, Relativity, Gravity and Time dilation, Torsion Fields, etc into our everyday experiences, we would see that all phenomena may be or can be fully measured and explained.

A mystery is just something waiting to be discovered.

And, we have to stop using mysteries to explain mysteries.

Love your take on Adeboye and all.

K9blunt:
Very touching. Hmn here's mine.
I was born and raised a christian, am not much of an academic person, I hated reading textbooks and doing homework was easy enough reasons for the teachers to practise pain inflicting tactics on my young skin *chuckles*. There were times when I see some mischievious people hiding in the dark I was quick to say it was the devil trying to get in and destroy the family I love and knew yadayada. I grew to love God for no reason order than I should just love him. I grew up that way, even making sure I don't give any minute to any talks against God cause I that as an afront on the so-called almighty, I even had dreams of seeing angels and seeing mary (as per catholism) in my dreams praying for me.

The beginning of reality started when my mom became really sick, I prayed and prayed and prayed, I even tried other ways of praying like; thanking god for doing the miracle of yet to see, acting as if am talking to a father close to me and thenn crying blood (that's exagerrating I know) but no help came. Its just through advise, studies and then financial help from here and there, then just plain family bond that made it bearable for the illness to be managed and then mind you we are not financially bouyant.

Then I asked for a sign, it came alright in many ways than one, my sibling had been praying, working and even fasting to God for help out of the country, I later joined, then promises came of us getting our wish but NO! It never came. Even when it seemed something good was coming up, it felt like 1 step forward, thousand steps southwards.

Then what broke the camels back was when I sat back, saw the chaos happening around me, earthquakes, 9/11, tsunami, animal cruelty, perversion, rape, injustice, E,T,C.
Then opened my bible (then) read it, prayed to understand, instead I got more anoyyed, more confused as I wanted to believe God is all merciful, asked questions from people I respected and got more and more inquinsitive. Then I just decided that if there's a God at all, all these won't be happening = atheist!

Am telling you all these (am so eshausted) because its not based on anger became an atheist, its because its just what it is to me. If your God exist, he doesn't need me opening my heart or giving me in form of vision ( as most people prefer) he should just show himself, answer these questions in my head, without killing me or making me blind (as he's known to do). In short he should open my heart (not literally o) and prove himself. Maybe just maybe I would believe and then forgive his creating hell if I refuse to believe.

Phew! Did I just type all that.....

yes you did.... that was touching. fortunately my first foray into questioning god and its existence started when i was like 14.. i simply asked the question "what if" . what if i wasn't an anglican. then i experimented Catholicism, read the koran, meditated to Zen Buddhism (which i still do) amongst other thing. I then just gave up totally and life has been very interesting. keep it up sis...

stephendamsoho:
This Man knows his onions

my guy is wasting his talents.. with such good knowledge of the bible he can become a preacherman and make money.. i tell everyone that if they see me in church preaching, its not because i've found salavation, but i have found serious hunger and am striking bad. I believe most preachermen are closet atheists. cos if they had total conviction on the bible they would not be behaving anyhow.

johnydon22:
In physics, time is a quantum dimension.
Time and speed are relative. . . Its a simple beautiful scientific discovery fully represented in the small but complex mathematical equation E=MC²
And it takes a very big intellectually deranged individual to think that there is a house in the sky where snow is stored.

Snows form in an atmosphere where the temperature drops to or below 0°C and the crystalline droplet accumulates water droplets from the atmosphere before dropping and hitting the ground.

You still holding on to the ancient belief that snow has a store house in the sky, actually you are completely disgrace the very intellect of 21st century homo sapiens. . . Tell us now who the fool is

wait a minute, that guy believed that there is a store house for snow?!!!!!!! choi see stupidity.. no wonder the skydaddy belief.....

johnydon22:
[b]Lol is that the new line?

Actually nobody is saying God is dead because before you say something no longer is, you must first have to prove it once have been.

Most atheist you meet were once christians because they were born into christian homes and areas saturated by christianity due to geographical location.

You cannot expect someone who have not read the quran to start arguing with that which he has not read, or is that how your life is? You argue over what you have no idea of?

Most atheist you see here on nairaland were once christians or lived in christian areas and are most familiar with the bible and christian thumping ish, so they engage you based on what they know.
Muslims atheist attack more of islam, in fact i think muslims atheist are predominant among atheists on twitter yet as usual you wish to play the victims card.

Many a time they engage the muslims who seem to be quite conservative in engaging atheists unlike christians like you who just open threads to point at atheist then cry victim when it starts.

If muslims start opening threads pointing fingers and threatening people as much as you do here then they would have gotten as much attention from atheist like christianity obviously is getting.

Atheism doesn't mean disbelief in christian God, it means disbelief in ALL of the God concepts man has come up with through out history.

So same way i disbelieve your God yahweh is exactly same way i disbelieve muslim Allah and equally disbelieve Hindu Brahma or Greek Zeus. . . And if you find out the reason why you disbelieve these other religions then you will know exactly why i disbelieve yours.

These other religions tend to keep it to themselves, i have never seen a hindu preach to me or tell me what brahma will do to me if i don't believe it neither in this part of the country have i seen a muslims preach to me in fact the only place i have seen a mosque here is in the barracks. .

I have no problem with your christian God or Belief just like i have no problem with the Muslim God tho i have a problem with their barbaric laws which i am sure i speak and argue against here on nairaland much well.

But robbing your belief on my face like we get everyday both in the street, bus, school virtually everywhere in the name of preaching is practically encroaching in my personal right and space and we have a problem with that.

In nairaland muslims isolate themselves in one section and they pour and swallow their absuridities there once they bring it out in an open ground like here they know quite well they will get exactly what you get...

Once you bring out absurdities and mythical brouhaha in an open public forum like this, you should expect to be challenged and given healthy refutation unless you wish just like a typical theist to shield your belief from skeptic scrutiny... mind you homo sapiens aint robots that are supposed to download what ever you feed into the hardware.

Christians open most threads about atheists then complain when they get equal attention from atheist, is that not blatant hypocrisy and if i must say childish victim mindset.

This thread alone is enough to show you pin point atheist more than other religions care to do so do not complain when they accord you similar favour.

After all God is not dead, that which has not been shown to live cannot be said to be dead..

and he is coming soon, probably in the next 10000years he will still be coming soon... You need a dictionary to know the meaning of SOON.

Last your religion of today, is the myth of the future. . . Take a look behind historical timeline to see that

Lest i forget, if you don't want atheist to stop attacking your christian absurdities...
Why not just pray for us to stop, am sure your christian God is all powerful and can do that. So pray for us to stop....it should be easy for your God and i suggest you start your fasting and prayers immediately.

Until then, you have to deal with atheist bullshiit everyday [/b]

A month of dry fasting will surely get god(s)'s attention. Don't eat or drink water oh... just keep praying for us atheist.

plaetton:
What a liar and hypocrite You are.

I guess you have never heard of scandals involving Catholic priests having indiscriminate sexual or. Gies with underage boys right inside churchesy, even in the hallowed chambers of the Rvatican? E
A Catholic should be the last person to accuse others of sexual immorality. Your cult has a very very long history in the area of sexual perversions, Wars, mass murders, torture and fraud.
Were You born yesterday?

Spanish Inquisition, the crusades, World War 2 etc.

jejemanito:
You just proved them right with your dumb thread

thank you

dalaman:
Islam has completely replaced the culture of the northerners. The Hausa/Fulani Muslim has no culture of his own, Islam has replaced everything. Christianity has penetrated the south but it hasn't completely destroyed the culture of the people, in fact many have fused their culture into the christian religion, stuffs like spirit husband, marine/ husband and wife, Ogbanje and the rest have all been fused into Christianity. White garment church is a good example.

We are already a very superstitious people that don't depend so much on reason or the scientific process, the foreign religions didn't make us any worse, they just came and diverted us from over dependence on our own mythology and superstitions to that of the foreigners.

Our future is lost. The Kewu School opposite my place are graduating their pupils tonight. Quoting the entire Koran in Arabic. These are small kids

johnydon22:
Another blunder, maybe this is as a result of willful dishonesty. .
Atheism is just a word that labels disbelief in deities.
Theism used to label belief in deities. . . . Both of them are not religions but positions over belief and unbelief in deities.

Talk about religions we all know what religion is following the same doctrine and mode of practise...and we know the examples.

Tagging people's ideologies to be modes of religions is as stupendous as it is ridiculous. I am in love with white girls only, does this put me in a different atheist sect?

Hahahahahahaha Atheism just means i don't believe a deity exists. . and atheists do not share ideologies.
And ideologies are not synonymous to religion

why only white girls. i wanted to dash you my cousin... she needs to be "dereligionize"

johnydon22:
But you alleged the events of genesis to be within 6000BC. maybe you should learn constructiveness when posting next time.
Lmao. . . The bible said this, the bible said that. You can't even make an independent assertion.

Animals don't have spirits yet they are alive and breath like you but then because you are alive then you must have spirit. . when asked for how you got to know you have a spirit and animals dont .you call the bible!!! seriously? The bible is the claim, where is the proof, you have none all you have it circular statement.

Man has spirits- because the bible said so- because the bible is true -because the bible said it(bible) is true.

Am wowed at such naivete honestly. . . Tell me: Why do you think you have spirit but other species don't?

The Holy Book whose's teachings i subscribe to The Holy WALTDISNEY says all dogs go to heaven.

oseod:
This tweet tho

my best...

johnydon22:
Allah be like "I need to prove myself to make people know i exist. WTF let me appear on a piece of meat"

Fried eran for that matter.. those idiots will start reverencing that piece of meat now... when boys wan chop

plaetton:
It wasn't Obama that did the ruling. It was the supreme court of the United States, the final gurantor and arbiter of the United States Constitution.
The same supreme court and Constitution that has been guaranteeing and upholding equal rights, dignity and equal justice to blacks over the last 200 yrs or so.

Unfortunately, we in Africa are still too primitive, animistic and unappreciative of our own collective history to understand what "a right" is.

Fani-Kayode, on the other hand, a Western educated elite, he himself a tribal chauvinist, represents the tragedy of the African elite class.

Fani-Kayode's late brother was gay check (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotimi_Fani-Kayode). I cannot understand his empathy for Homosexuals. I am more understanding to homosexuality because I have a very close family friend who is and he is such a great person. We are too primitive for my liking.

plaetton:
Lol.
A lot of bible thumping whites made same or even more passionate arguments against the abolition of slavery, the granting of right, human rights to blacks, desegregation, interracial marriages, womens rights, universal suffrage for blacks and women, etc etc.

Its sad that black people, the most discriminated and exploited group in the world, have such a short memory.

Blacks should even be the forerunners when it comes to atheism. we have been constantly bleeped by god(s). our ancestors folded hands during the slave trade, the slaves were subjugated to terrible circumstances yet crying out to the white man's (who is enslaving them) god(s). sometimes i wanted to bash the head of the next person that preaches to me.

jude2011:
I don't know what to do. Can I acknowledge the existence of God without practicing any religion? My philosophy lecturer claims he is a catholic but when teaching, he is so raw. He can make even a pastor to drop his bible. Most deeper life folks don't attend his lectures anymore. I don't believe he believes in God. He planted the seed of doubt in us by making lectures so interesting and full of thought provoking statements. The atheist I discussed with made me to do my own little research on different religions. I don't think I can be a christain again as I don't think I believe in the bible anymore. I am more concerned about my dear mother. She will die of heart attack, if she found out I don't believe in her most cherished bible. My question is ''can I believe in GOD and not practice any religion?''. If yes, what is the term called. Secondely, Can an atheist go to church and pretend as if he believes in the bible? Thanks

what she doesn't know won't kill her. I am atheist but my mother thinks i just do not go to church. Like backsliding and all.

lefulefu:
forget maharaji.na T.b JOSHUA area of expertise be dis

Na pastor Fatoyinbo area joor... by the time him go COZA the babe........ Na secondary virgin she go dey find.

time to chop his own alert... must have been tired seeing his hardwork going to the coffers of the general church. so he is branching out to start his own 'consultancy'.. sorry i mean 'Ministry'...

hahn:
I believe the op is asking if there was a planned and deliberate attempt at ensuring that our culture be "given a new meaning" so that it can "play a less role in our society".

My answer is yes. When the europeans decided to journey into Africa, they developed a well planned strategy to ensure that their rule be guaranteed on this new "discovery" of theirs. First, they started by claiming they "discovered" Africa. How on earth do you discover a place where people already live in, have families, built societies and had their own culture and history really beats me.

In the beginning, our ancestors ate these people but in some parts welcomed them maybe out of sheer curiosity at the clothings, the way they spoke, their huge ships and gifts.

These series of events gave room to the idea of the need to teach the black man their ways. I don't mean to digress but ask yourself, when you travel to another country, do you teach those people Yoruba or hausa or igbo or do you learn their own language? I believe its far easier to learn the other person's language afterall there is a larger population of igbos in Lagos who speak Yoruba as opposed to the number of Yorubas in Lagos who speak igbo.

However, the white man did the exact opposite. Instead, they gave our ancestors gifts in the form of their kind of clothing. They set up schools and started teaching us English. They set up churches and taught us about Jesus Christ all the while saying, "you don't dress properly. Our language is better than yours. All your gods are false, serve the one and only true god". They even went as far as setting up their own "government" and the irony is that they said our kings and queens were below their government and laws even though ironically, they did all these "in the name of the queen".

Then they decided to carter our ancestors away as "slaves" after recognising their obvious physical strenght by conniving with the kings of old and bribing them with gifts and titles. After using these slaves for centuries they went ahead and taught them only about white leaders before the blacks were able to educate themselves and demand the inclusion os "black history" as in the case of America. However, they were able to steal over 1000years of Africa's development.

And their plan worked.

Today we have a generation that believe it is "razz" to speak your own language or even pidgin English. Listen to Nigerian radio stations and most of the presenters can't even pronounce their own names. Our youths believe serving our own gods will lead us to hell without realising that by believing in such a statement you have condemed every single one of your ancestors to eternal damnation. People believe you are Behind when you eat salad, burgers, meat pie, pizzas, sharwarma and will quickly say "yuck" to our own eba, amala etc despite the fact that our foods are more economical and healthy etc

So, once again I say YES to the ops assertion. Africa is a victim of cultural genocide

@plaetton

i wish my loved ones could read this...