The man was arrested Sept. 12 and was still in the Alachua County Jail when he was charged in the second case Wednesday.

A UF Health Shands Hospital nurse has been charged with sexual battery on two patients, police reports said.

Paul Brophy, 30, of 7718 SW 11th St. in Gainesville, was charged Wednesday with indecent exposure and sexual battery, UF police reported.

Brophy was arrested in September on a sexual battery charge. UPD Maj. Brad Barber said the allegations that led to Wednesday’s arrest came after police learned of a possible second victim through their investigation of the first case.

On Sept. 10 Brophy reportedly went into a patient’s room, closed the curtain around his bed and told the man he would be doing an exam. Brophy lifted the man’s gown and performed and placed his mouth on the man’s penis. The man pushed him away.

When confronted by hospital staff about the allegations, Brophy said he did not want to be arrested at work and left abruptly, the report said.

Brophy was arrested Sept. 12 and was still in the Alachua County Jail when he was charged in the second case Wednesday.

That incident happened earlier this year. While working as a nurse in the emergency department, Brophy pressed his groin into the outstretched arm of a man on a gurney, who had an IV in his arm, police said.

After the victim was moved to a private room, police say Brophy entered the room, lowered the victim's pants and tried to perform oral sex on the victim. The victim told police Brophy's penis was fully exposed.

The victim, who did not consent "in any way to the sexual actions Brophy took," pointed Brophy out in a photo lineup "immediately and unequivocally," the report said.

Alachua County deputies also tagged Brophy with a probation violation charge, jail records show.

In an email, Rossana Passaniti, a UF Health spokeswoman, said hospital officials take such allegations seriously, and that after hearing of them, Brophy was immediately suspended and later fired. Officials are cooperating with UF police in their investigation, she noted.

A request for the date Brophy started at Shands was not provided by Passaniti Thursday afternoon.