Seven women who had just given birth at a Southern California hospital were molested by a lab technician over the course of two days, police said on Tuesday.
The women complained that a hospital lab technician groped their breasts or vaginas under the pretext of conducting postpartum examinations in their rooms last Thursday and Friday.
"He was pretty smooth about how he did it," a police spokesman in Garden Grove, Orange County, told reporters. One of the victims "said that a lab tech had come in under the guise of coming in to draw blood and basically started talking to her about her medical condition, how she was feeling and that led to a breast examination. In one other case, it led to him doing an actual vaginal examination."
The alarm was raised when one of the women became suspicious and reported the incident to another staff member at Garden Grove Hospital.
Dante Arnaud has been arrested on charges of sexual battery, police said.