Donald Riziva assaulted the boy in his care at the Victoria Gardens Hospital in Huyton in 2019Donald Riziva assaulted the boy in his care at the Victoria Gardens Hospital in Huyton in 2019, a hearing was told.
Mr Riziva, from Bootle, did not attend the hearing, but said the case had caused him "trauma and after-effects". "It has been a complete three years out of the profession and reflecting on circumstances around my suspension, I feel I am safer both physically and mentally and thus excuse myself."Mr Riziva, who was employed through an agency and first registered in 2008, was caring for the boy who had complex mental health needs, which included violent tendencies and required three-to-one nursing, the panel heard.
In an email to the panel, he admitted the incident had occurred and said: "With the circumstances at hand at the time, after having been headbutted, stabbed on the eye, I felt my life was in extreme danger, as the events happened in a flush of a second I acted in the heat of the moment trying to free myself from the situation."