An FDNY EMT fondled a female car crash victim and tried to insinuate himself into a romance with her in the days following the wreck, police allege.
Police say David Taranto, 31, of the 200 block of Kiswick Street in Midland Beach, took liberties with a middle-aged female who had gotten into a crash on West Cedarview Avenue and Kensico Street in Richmond on May 16.
The woman was shaken up in the crash, and once she was in an ambulance, Taranto took his stethoscope, placed it underneath her shirt, and cupped her breast in his hand, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the case.
He told her she had a "beautiful body," the source said, and accompanied her to the hospital, staying with her for three hours.
At one point, the source said, he took her cell phone and called his own number with it. Over the next few days, he called her and sent her texts, inviting her to his house, the source said. She told him that she was uncomfortable with the contact, and contacted authorities, the source said.
Police arrested Taranto yesterday afternoon, charging him with a single count of third-degree sexual abuse, a misdemeanor, said Peter N. Spencer, a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.
FDNY spokesman Steve Ritea said Taranto, who’s a seven-year EMT veteran assigned to Staten Island, has been suspended without pay for 30 days following the arrest.
10 comments:
He took liberties a person in his position should never take. He is there to protect and help victims, not abuse them.
Its people like him that gives the Fdny ems command a bad name.
It guy doesn't deserve to be a emt in the fdny!!! There are plenty of ppl on the waiting list.
Wow, who ever made this website is a real ems hater. Dont get me wrong this guy is a scum bag and should be put in jail, but if you look at all these headlines there all mostly negative stuff about ems. Obviously the person who made this website has a grudge against ems for whatever reason and is trying to give them a bad name. Ems does a lot of good things to you know like, i dont know save peoples lives. Is that not good enough for you savages? Ems saves thousands of people lives every year and theres not one headline here about ems helping or saving someone. If you let this website brain wash you then your a fool.
In the months prior to 9-11 if you remember, their was a string of bad press about the fire dept. Drunk firemen driving into people on the way TO work, food runs where a fire truck collided with a civilian etc... The FDNY always works to discredit the EMS (they never wanted them to be a part of FDNY)
The FDNY acts like sept. 11 was an attack solely on firemen. Hey 300 firemen dead is bad of course, but next to 3000 citizens its 1% I keep seeing "we will never forget" when it comes to firemen and 9 11, but I don't see it with respect to the average people against whom the attack truly was launched.
lol american maths you got to love it :) 300 of 3000 is actually 10%...
i would assume the reason you also see more comments about never forgetting the fdny lost is because they are a small but motivated group of individuals who lost a large number of friends...
in comparison even though more "citizens" of ny died they have no a single thread that unites them all and very few people will have known for instance 10-15 people who died unlike many firefighters.
Obviously there will be some but they number far less than a municipal organisation such as the FDNY.
So in short pull your head out your ass, learn some maths and educate yourself douchebag
Absolute disgrace to the EMT world. He should have not done this under any circumstances. May be he needs to take EMT certification once again to learn how to treat patients.
This person I heard is now in Coney Island Station 43.
MOS at that station should refuse to ride with him. Patients should refuse to be treated by him.
This is unacceptable.
They could not prove the sexual abuse but they did prove he called her on her personal phone from his own personal phoen for no official reason.
This fucking loser is a cancer on NYC EMS.
Do not call the patients. Sign up for match.com to get a date.
Most of those FDNY never dreamed that they towers would fall. Once they found out they were going down they ran out of there like the Road Runner Jumping over the civilians they love to make fun of. I know because I had a Father in Law and a Brother In Law that were both part of New York's Bravest and they were and are 2 of the biggest scumbags you would never want to meet. A lot of other people died on that day and they were just as brave as any FDNY dude.
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