Staff report
A Hamlet man was arrested Sunday by Hamlet police officers after two women filed complaints he assaulted them while a patient at Sandhills Regional Medical Center.
Two women allege that Thadus Gerome Primus, 44, a hospital janitor, sexually assaulted both women while they were patients in the mental ward.
One woman filed her complaint after being discharged from the hospital. The second woman was still a patient at the hospital when she filed the report.
Primus has been charged with three felony counts of sexual activity by a custodian. He was confined at the Richmond County Jail before posting $20,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in Richmond County District Court on Aug. 7.