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Popular Kenyan TikToker charged with sexual assault in US hospital

Abedinecho Katue

Popular Kenyan TikToker and nurse Abedinecho Katue.

Photo credit: Pool

By  David Monda

Contributor

What you need to know:

  • Katue was arrested on March 4 after authorities accused him of sexually assaulting a patient on January 26, 2025.
  • He allegedly entered a hospital room where an amputee patient was confined and inappropriately touched her.

Popular Kenyan TikToker and nurse Abedinecho Katue has been charged with sexual assault of a patient in a hospital in Orlando, Florida.  

Katue, 46, was charged in the Ninth Circuit Court of Orange County in Orlando with “sexual battery of a physically incapacitated victim and a second count of lewd or lascivious molestation of a disabled adult.”

Katue, who worked at AdventHealth Orlando, was arrested on March 4, 2026 after authorities accused him of sexually assaulting a patient on January 26, 2025.

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He allegedly entered a hospital room where an amputee patient was confined and inappropriately touched her.

Police said the victim said the nurse fondled her and gave her morphine without consent to keep her quiet. The suspect had been wanted for nearly a year before his arrest on March 4, 2026.

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