An occupational therapist was arrested after being caught having drunken intercourse on a park bench close to a main college.
Lilia Feddag admitted outraging public decency after a 12-year-old woman witnessed the incident and dialled 999, an expert misconduct panel heard.
The kid reported seeing Ms Feddag and a person having intercourse on a park bench close to a playground in Arnold, Nottinghamshire.
She was issued a police warning after which referred herself to the Well being and Care Professions Council.
The council’s tribunal service has now issued Ms Feddag with a separate warning for skilled misconduct.
The panel heard that on Could 5, 2024, a 12-year-old referred to as Nottinghamshire Police to report ‘seeing a male and a feminine having intercourse on a park bench close to a playground space’.
The incident happened in King George V Recreation Floor, subsequent to Arnold View Main Faculty.
Witnesses instructed officers that different younger youngsters had been within the neighborhood and that the couple ‘had been challenged by members of the general public earlier than shifting to a distinct space the place they continued to have intercourse’.
The kids’s playground in Arnold, Nottinghamshire, close to the park bench the place the incident happened
The panel additionally heard that each Ms Feddag and the person ‘each appeared intoxicated’ and the pair had been subsequently arrested.
In accordance with tribunal paperwork: ‘When officers attended the incident and the registrant (Ms Feddag) was requested why the police had been in attendance, she responded, “As a result of we had intercourse”, and admitted to the offence in interview’.
The occupational therapist accepted a police warning for the act of ‘outraging public decency… by behaving in an indecent method, specifically engaged in sexual behaviour with one other’ in a public place.
Ms Feddag didn’t attend the listening to however supplied written proof to the panel.
She stated: ‘I write in response to the Case Investigation Report (23 March, 2025) concerning the police warning I accepted on 6 Could, 2024, for outraging public decency.
‘On that date, I drank excessively, which instantly compromised my judgement and led to behavior that was indecent and wholly unacceptable.
‘I accepted the police warning instantly as a result of I recognised the seriousness of my actions and my obligation to take accountability.
‘I stay deeply remorseful, significantly as a result of two youngsters had been recorded as witnesses.
‘Coming to phrases with the truth that youngsters had been uncovered to my behaviour has been particularly painful.
‘That realisation has pushed the adjustments I’ve since made to make sure that my judgement can’t be compromised on this approach once more.
‘I recognise that even a single lapse of judgement undermines public confidence in me as a registrant, and I settle for that my conduct did so.’
Ms Feddag added that she is abstinent and has ‘no want to drink’ however that if she does in future she’s going to ‘observe NHS steering on alcohol use’, which advises ‘not exceeding 14 models per week, unfold throughout at the least three days, with a number of drink free days every week’.
She described the ‘remoted’ incident as a ‘one-off lapse’ that was ‘out of character’, including that she carries ‘lasting remorse for the misery precipitated’.
The misconduct panel dominated that suspension from the career can be ‘disproportionate’ and Ms Feddag was as an alternative handed a 12-month warning order to present her ‘alternative to mirror on her actions and to make sure that they’d not be repeated by her shifting ahead’.
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