Hunter
12/18/24
A state-certified nursing assistant has been accused of sexual impropriety at three Iowa nursing homes, including locations in Audubon, Correctionville, and Kalona.
Iowa Capital Dispatch reports the most recent case, and the only one in which criminal charges were filed, involved 37-year-old Martell Guider’s employment at the Pleasantview Home in Kalona.
Police say officials at Pleasantview confronted Guider sometime in January after multiple employees raised concerns that he was being inappropriate with a 17-year-old minor who was present at the home but not a resident.
It’s alleged that after his supervisors talked to him about the complaints, Guider shared an explicit photo of the minor with his employer. According to police, Guider had threatened the minor to induce her to send him the photos via Snapchat.
Guider’s colleagues at Pleasantview also complained that he had been making unwanted advances toward female coworkers in the nursing home. He was subsequently barred from the care facility.
Guider was charged with sexual exploitation of a minor by causing the minor to engage in a sex act, sexual exploitation through the use of photographs, possession of material depicting a minor engaged in sex, and first-degree harassment.
In October, a jury convicted Guider of sexual exploitation by causing the minor to engage in a sex act. He was acquitted of the remaining charges, which included sexual exploitation through the use of photographs, possession of material depicting a minor engaged in sex, and first degree Harassment.
Guider was given a 25-year suspended sentence and five years of probation.
Guider recently filed a motion for a new trial, which was denied by District Court Judge Michael Carpenter. Guider has since filed an appeal with the Iowa Supreme Court.