Fired Legacy Emanuel Medical Center nurse Jeffrey N. McAllister, 38, faces a new indictment, accusing him of two additional felony charges in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a fourth patient in the hospital's emergency room.
The new indictment was filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court on Tuesday.
It accuses him of two additional charges – first-degree unlawful sexual penetration and first-degree sodomy - stemming from a fourth woman who testified before a grand jury that the abuse occurred on Oct. 13, according to court records.
McAllister's attorney Daniel P. Woram declined comment Tuesday afternoon.
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On July 11, McAllister, who remains in custody, pleaded not guilty to a prior 11-count indictment accusing him of raping, sodomizing and sexually abusing a patient on Jan. 15 and sexually abusing two other patients while he worked as a nurse in the hospital's emergency room, on Sept. 24 and Feb. 14.
The latest charges resulted from a complaint to Portland police in April, prompting a full investigation into McAllister and complaints from other alleged victims that were made earlier.
The victim of the alleged assault in January, 34-year-old Susan Graham, went public with her complaint earlier this month, saying she was disturbed that Portland police did not take her seriously in January, having a detective contact her three months later.
Graham said McAllister gave her the opioid fentanyl in her IV, a pain reliever commonly used as an anesthetic, and then forced her to have sex in a locked bathroom in the ER.
Graham went to Providence Portland Medical Center two days later to have a forensic sex assault exam done, and reported the attack to a Portland police officer.
A Portland detective did not follow-up with Graham until April. Portland police said the months-long delay occurred because the bureau's sex assault victim advocates were unable to reach Graham by phone or by mail.
The alleged victim of the Sept. 24 abuse testified before a grand jury that she had reported her complaint about McAllister's inappropriate touching of her breast to nursing staff the same day, but that hospital staff ignored it, according to her attorney.
The hospital fired McAllister in April.
McAllister, a former Beaverton and Seaside police officer, is scheduled to return to Multnomah County Circuit Court Wednesday morning to be arraigned on the new indictment. The new charges raise his bail to $2.5 million.
--Maxine Bernstein