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Prison for paramedic who fondled patients
Tuesday, August 05, 2008 | No comments posted.
PORTLAND (AP) — A Multnomah County judge sentenced a former paramedic to five years in prison for inappropriately touching female patients during ambulance trips.
Judge Leslie Roberts also sentenced Lannie Lee Haszard to five years of probation and ordered him to register as a sex offender following his release.
Haszard, 62, pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree sexual abuse.
The abuse became public after a 28-year-old single mother of three reported what Haszard had done to her last December.
The woman said she passed out in her Portland home and one of her children called for help. She said Haszard fondled her as she lay in a semiconscious state.
“I wasn’t all the way awake, but I was aware of what was happening around me,” the woman said. “That’s what bothers me the most. It was like watching somebody do something to me and I couldn’t do anything.”
Judge Leslie Roberts also sentenced Lannie Lee Haszard to five years of probation and ordered him to register as a sex offender following his release.
Haszard, 62, pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree sexual abuse.
The abuse became public after a 28-year-old single mother of three reported what Haszard had done to her last December.
The woman said she passed out in her Portland home and one of her children called for help. She said Haszard fondled her as she lay in a semiconscious state.
“I wasn’t all the way awake, but I was aware of what was happening around me,” the woman said. “That’s what bothers me the most. It was like watching somebody do something to me and I couldn’t do anything.”
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