A 60-year-old nurse was sentenced Friday to four years in prison for sexually assaulting three women under his care while inserting a catheter in the patients over three weeks at Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo.

Paul Alden Miller was convicted Sept. 2 of three felony counts of sexual battery by fraud and three misdemeanor counts of touching an intimate part of another person. He was acquitted of a misdemeanor count of inflicting injury on an elder adult.

Miller was convicted of assaults on women aged 56, 68 and 22.

Miller’s attorney, Sharon Beth Marshall, argued for probation in the case. She said a probation official recommended probation, as well.

“Paul Miller spent 56 years of his life violation-free,” Marshall said in court papers. “Paul purposefully chose a job after

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