Tag Archives: Junior Program sexual assault

A volunteer firefighter from New Cumberland, Pennsylvania has been sentenced to three to ten years in prison for sexually assaulting a junior firefighter in 2019. James W. Ainsworth III, 26, pled guilty in Cumberland County Court to a single charge of aggravated indecent assault of a person less than 16 years of age.

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The former fire chief of the Cordova Volunteer Fire Department has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for sexually abusing minors, including members of his own fire department. James Morris Jr., 70, pled guilty yesterday in US District Court to attempted enticement of a minor.

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A lawsuit that alleged a 13-year old girl was sexually assaulted by a fire lieutenant while participating in the department’s junior program has been settled. The family of the victim, who was identified in the pleadings as T.S., filed the suit last year naming Lieutenant Joshua James Ralston and the Trucksville Volunteer Fire Department as defendants.

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A former Oregon firefighter who was accused of sexually abusing a junior firefighter when she was 14 and 15, has been acquitted of all charged. Carlos Villa-Garcia was acquitted yesterday on one count of second-degree sexual abuse and two counts of third-degree sexual abuse.

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A captain with the Plainfield Fire Department has been charged with sexually assaulting a junior firefighter. Kevin Wells, 27, is facing three counts of second-degree sexual assault. The victim reported the assault on August 8, 2017. She reported that the assault occurred at the fire station.

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A 63 page complaint has been filed in Federal Court in Pennsylvania alleging that three firefighters, two of whom are also police officers, had inappropriate sexual relationships with a 15 year old junior firefighter. The suit, filed under the name ...

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A sexual misconduct allegation involving a minor female firefighter in New Jersey that prompted three separate lawsuits has been settled… in part. Two of three suits filed by John and Patricia Newton, parents of Jordan Newton, against Greenwich Township, the ...

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