Genesee County Woman Sues Convicted Doctor, Alleging Sexual Assault While Unconscious at Hospital
A Genesee County woman did not learn she had been sexually assaulted until investigators showed up at her door nearly two years later, video in hand, asking her to confirm her own identity.
The woman filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Genesee County Circuit Court against Dr. Oumair Aejaz, alleging he assaulted her while she was unconscious and receiving treatment for diabetic ketoacidosis at what was then Ascension Genesys Hospital, now Henry Ford Genesys Hospital. According to the lawsuit, she woke up with bruises and marks on her body but could get no explanation from hospital staff. She had no idea what had happened to her until March 2026, when the Oakland County Sheriff's Office showed her video recovered from Aejaz as part of its effort to identify his victims.
Her attorney, Tim Holland, said the woman had no way of knowing about the assault until deputies came to her door. The lawsuit calls the attack "horrifying" and "predatory."
Aejaz is already in prison. He was sentenced in December to a minimum of 35 years after pleading no contest to sexual misconduct charges tied to secretly recording parents and children in the changing rooms of a Goldfish Swim School location in Oakland County. He was also accused of sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and recording the assault. His arrest in August 2024 prompted Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard to warn that the handful of cases charged at the time were "the tip of the iceberg" and that hundreds of victims could eventually come forward.
That warning has held up. In the two years since Aejaz's arrest, the sheriff's office has worked to identify additional victims from recordings and other evidence, and that effort has led to a series of lawsuits against Aejaz and the medical institutions where he worked. A class-action lawsuit filed against Henry Ford Macomb Hospital in 2024 was settled for $125 million in November. Four more women sued in Macomb County in March. The case filed Wednesday is the second lawsuit brought against Aejaz and Genesys Hospital in Genesee County. Goldfish Swim School has also been sued by women and families whose changing-room recordings became part of the criminal case against him.
The lawsuit does not specify when the alleged assault at Genesys occurred. Holland said the woman was treated for a serious medical emergency, left the hospital with unexplained injuries and no answers, and did not learn what had happened to her until Oakland County investigators contacted her directly in March 2026.
Henry Ford Health, which now operates the hospital under the Henry Ford Genesys name, referred questions about the lawsuit to Ascension, the health system that ran the hospital at the time of the alleged assault. A Henry Ford spokesperson, Lauren Zakalik, did not comment further on the specifics of the case.
The lawsuit is the latest in a series of legal actions against Aejaz that now span at least three counties and multiple hospitals and health systems. The Oakland County Sheriff's Office has said his conduct extended beyond any single hospital or facility. In case after case, recordings were found well after the assaults occurred, and victims were identified through the sheriff's office's review of the evidence. The $125 million settlement in the Henry Ford Macomb case shows the scale of the financial exposure that institutions connected to Aejaz's employment could face as more lawsuits are filed.
The lawsuit seeks damages from Aejaz and raises questions about how a hospital patient who was sedated or unconscious could be left alone with him without safeguards catching what happened. Holland has not said whether additional Genesys patients have come forward or whether the sheriff's office believes more victims from that hospital remain unidentified.
No hearing date has been set in the Genesee County case. Aejaz remains incarcerated. The Oakland County Sheriff's Office has not said whether its identification of victims from his recordings is complete.
