A woman has been found guilty of sexually assaulting five female colleagues at a care home in Scotland. Care worker, Samantha Lee, 31, of Grangemouth, was reported to bosses by the women who worked with her at the institution in Stirlingshire.

A judge at Falkirk Sheriff Court described the impact of the sexual assault against one of the women as "traumatic". The victim - who had only just returned to work after a medical episode - said Lee approached her at the nurse's station and pulled her head into her chest. The woman told the court: "She pulled my head into her cleavage and shook her breasts."

Prosecutor Simona Gersheva asked: "Did you want her to do that?" To which the woman replied: "No. I was shocked - really stunned by it."

She added: "[Lee] made comments about my partner's private parts and slapped me on the bum in the dining room in front of the residents."

The woman said she'd mentioned to Lee she was not eating meat at the time. The woman said: "She asked if I want to eat my partner's meat. It was really grotesque. I haven't forgotten the way she made me feel."

Bosses launched an investigation and four other women came forward, the Daily Record reports. Lee subsequently quit her post as a carer at the home, which looks after adults aged 18 to 65. Police were called in.

One colleague said Lee had been "hitting her boobs", telling the court she felt "kind of violated". The woman said she was on a waiting list for a mammogram at the time.

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She said: "[Lee] hit the bottom of my breasts and pushed them up. It was sore. The second time she did it I told her if she didn't stop I was going to bust her. She went from that to flipping my buttocks."

Another care home colleague, a married woman, said she had worked with Lee for over a year and found herself on the receiving end of her behaviour "quite a few times".

She said: "We'd be sitting having a laugh and she'd get up and touch my breasts."

The woman said Lee used "a juggling motion", adding: "She did it to quite a few people. She'd catch you unawares. She'd get up, do it, and walk away. I didn't find it funny."

A nurse at the home told the court Lee had twisted her nipples "multiple times".

Lee was found guilty of seven charges of sexual assault against five female staff members at the end of a two-day trial which ended on Tuesday (February 24).

The offences, which Lee denied, were committed between January 1 and July 17, 2024. Lee told the court she was "happy and bubbly" and had "never hurt anybody".

Sheriff Neil Kinnear told her: "Your position is that this is all made up. That would mean me accepting that not one, not three, but five colleagues of yours all deliberately made up lies about you to get you into trouble.

"I found all five to be credible and reliable. I have no reason to disbelieve them."

He said the impact of Lee's behaviour on the woman whose initial complaint triggered the investigation had been "traumatic".

As the verdict was delivered in court, Lee turned in the dock and shouted "scumbags" at care home staff on the public benches.

Lee is due to be sentenced on March 24 after a background report has been submitted to the court and a restriction of liberty order assessment to check her suitability for an electronic tag as an alternative to jail.

She was placed on the sex offenders' register and released on bail.