Angelo Raso was charged with stalking and intimidating, as well as assault, for hurting a nurse who refused to give him a TV remote in September.

The nurse had refused him the remote as he had frequently put it down the front of his pants and refused to take it out, making the female nurses retrieve it from close to his genitalia.

After offering to change the volume or channel for him, the nurse left the room, at which point Raso proceeded to ring the bell continuously to request the remote.

When told why it wasn't being given to him, he "smirked" and said "I'll put it down your pants."

When the nurse returned later to conduct medical checks and take his blood pressure, Raso grabbed their hand, squeezing heavily and pull them closer, before pulling one finger back so far causing them to cry out.

Other patients heard and saw what was going on and, unable to help out, yelled at him to stop.

Raso said to the nurse "I f****** punch you in the face you f****** dog", pulling the finger back even further.

He later told police he didn't like the finger being pointed at him, after initially denying the assault.

Police didn't arrest him because of his numerous medical conditions and his need to be in hospital, yet in facts tended to court officers wrote they fear he would continue to objectify and sexually harass hospital staff.

Represented by Conor Cregan on Wednesday, he told magistrate Joy Boulos that the circumstances were "serious".

Mr Cregan explained Raso suffered from a great number of medical conditions including being wheelchair bound, and was in and out of hospital for periods of time while living in aged care with his wife being deported several years ago.

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He said Raso didn't remember the assault, and was perhaps suffering from memory loss due to an acquired brain injury.

In the circumstances, Magistrate Joy Boulos said the only real option was a conditional release order.

"You have had other matters of violence on your record, but there has been a significant gap with the last being in 2011," she told Raso.

Given his early plea of guilty, as well as the assault being at the "lower end" of objective seriousness, she convicted him and put him on a nine month conditional release order.

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