Paramedic Jared David Evans, 32, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor sexual assault after he was accused of fondling an unresponsive 19-year-old woman
A woman in California has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the city of Sacramento claiming a paramedic fondled her breast while she was strapped in a gurney en route to the hospital after having a seizure.
According to the suit, the incident happened on April 1, 2017 when two Sacramento Fire Department paramedics responded to a call about a 19-year-old woman having a seizure at her home.
The victim, who is not named in the suit, was taken to the Kaiser Permanente Hospital in south Sacramento.
The suit claims that an intern paramedic who was in the ambulance told detectives that paramedic Jared David Evans, 32, motioned toward the victim’s breast during the ride to the hospital and said ‘take a look’, according to the Sacramento Bee.
‘Evans then placed his hand down the front of (the victim’s) shirt and pulled her breast out of the top of her shirt/bra,’ an arrest warrant for Evans states.
He then commented on the victim’s ‘big ass nipples’, the document claims. The intern told police that Evans later apologized saying he ‘had to’.
The lawsuit states that the incident happened in April 2017 after a woman in Sacramento had a seizure at her home. Two paramedics, one of them an intern, responded and transported the woman to the hospital
Following the incident, the intern went to his supervisor to tell him what happened.
The supervisor alerted police.
During an interview with investigators, the female victim said her eyes were closed and she could not move but could hear what the two paramedics were saying.
She also said she felt someone reach under her clothing and expose her breast, but did not see who it was.
The woman told investigators it could have been the intern who touched her because he was seated at her side. She said if it was Evans, who was seated behind her head, she would have felt him reach across her body.
‘She would have felt the arm of the paramedic seated at her head (Evans) come over her shoulder if he was the one that touched her,’ a police report read.
Evans had been a paramedic with the Sacramento Fire Department for two years at the time of the incident.
He denied the allegations during an interview with police on April 28. He was later arrested and charged with misdemeanor sexual battery.
The suit claims as the woman was being taken to Kaiser Permanente Hospital (pictured) a paramedic reached under her shirt and exposed her breast while making a comment about her nipple
He’s been on paid administrative leave since April.
Alex Gortinsky, the woman’s attorney, told the Sacramento Bee that his client remains in psychological treatment since the incident.
‘She still feels akin to a rape victim,’ he said. ‘She still hasn’t quite been able to overcome the situation of what happened to her.’
Evans is scheduled to appear in court on January 16. He faces up to six months in jail if convicted.