A hospital bed should be one of the last places where a vulnerable woman has to defend herself against a sexual predator. Over two days at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Mihai Csiki sexually assaulted three women aged 61, 69 and 74. The court then heard that he already had a foreign rape conviction.

3Women sexually assaulted over two days.
61, 69, 74The victims’ ages.
1Previous foreign rape conviction reported through Interpol.
~€363,000Gross benchmark for the full sentence.

Three women targeted in two days

The first victim was a 61-year-old hospital employee. Csiki grabbed her hand and shoulder, pinned her against a wall, touched her breasts and lowered his head towards her crotch.

A 69-year-old patient wearing a neck brace initially mistook him for a physiotherapist. He rubbed her chest and touched her between the legs over her clothing. CCTV captured the encounter.

The most serious assault involved a 74-year-old patient in bed. Csiki entered her room, closed the curtains, lifted her pyjama top and touched her bare breast, then pulled down her pyjama bottoms and touched her beneath her clothing. She could not scream. A healthcare assistant noticed her distress. Csiki later returned to the doorway and blew her a kiss.

He pleaded guilty to one sexual-assault count on a full-facts basis; two further charges were taken into consideration. Judge Sinéad McMullan said the additional incidents demonstrated a pattern. On 1 May 2026, she imposed three years and eight months, backdated to 30 April 2025.

Charged, outside Ireland, extradited

Gardaí searched Csiki’s Carrickmacross home on 22 March 2022 and interviewed him with an interpreter. He claimed one CCTV-recorded interaction was consensual and denied the other assaults. Published court reporting says he subsequently left Ireland after arrest and charge.

He was arrested in Germany and extradited in April 2025. The reports do not explain his release conditions, when he departed, when Gardaí learned where he was or the cost of securing his return. Those unknowns do not establish a separate offence or bail breach, but they expose an international enforcement burden that should be accounted for.

The foreign record

Interpol records put before the sentencing court showed a previous rape conviction plus theft and aggravated-theft convictions. Their jurisdiction, dates and sentences were not reported. Csiki had no previous Irish convictions. “No Irish convictions” did not mean no criminal record.

Csiki is Romanian, came to Ireland for work and is an EU citizen. No source says he was an asylum seeker or unlawfully present. The key unknown is when Irish authorities first obtained the foreign rape record and whether it was available before he entered, worked or offended here.

Chronology

  • Before March 2022: Foreign rape, theft and aggravated-theft convictions, dates and jurisdiction undisclosed.
  • 5–6 March 2022: Three women assaulted at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital.
  • 22 March 2022: Garda search, arrest and interview.
  • After arrest and charge: Csiki left Ireland in circumstances not detailed publicly.
  • April 2025: Arrested in Germany and extradited.
  • November 2025: Guilty plea on a full-facts basis.
  • 1 May 2026: Three-year-eight-month sentence imposed.

What imprisonment costs

At the Irish Prison Service’s €99,072 annual staffed-space benchmark, custody from 30 April 2025 to publication represents about €122,000. The full three-year-eight-month sentence represents a gross benchmark of approximately €363,264.

These are comparisons, not invoices. They do not account for remission or actual release and exclude Garda investigation, CCTV, interpretation, prosecution, legal aid, German arrest, extradition, victim services, supervision and removal proceedings.

Questions the State should answer

  1. When did Irish authorities first obtain Csiki’s foreign rape conviction?
  2. Was it available before he entered Ireland or began working here?
  3. On what conditions was he released after charge?
  4. When did Gardaí discover he had left and was in Germany?
  5. What did the arrest and extradition cost?
  6. Has Operation Moonridge assessed him for an EU removal and exclusion order?
  7. Did the hospital complete a safeguarding review?

By January 2026, the Department of Justice said Operation Moonridge had removed 25 non-Irish sex offenders, including 11 EU citizens. The State should say whether Csiki has been assessed before the end of his sentence, not after the prison gate opens.

Sources

Record checked: 22 July 2026.