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Conn. paramedic accused of ambulance sex assault

Associated Press

  January 07, 2012

A paramedic sexually assaulted a woman as she lay unconscious and strapped to a stretcher in the back of an ambulance on the way to a hospital, police said yesterday. The 22-year-old woman, who had fallen and suffered a head injury at a holiday party, says she woke up to find the man assaulting her inside the ambulance on Dec. 25, according to Hamden police. She said she could not move because she was strapped down. Mark Powell, 49, of North Haven, surrendered on Thursday.

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