An assistant fire chief in west-central Utah has been arrested and charged with multiple sexual assaults against a female firefighter under his command.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Kanosh Assistant Fire Chief Austin James Corry, 26, has been charged with two counts of rape, two counts of object rape, five counts of forcible sexual abuse and five counts of sexual battery in 4th District Court in Utah County.
The charges allege that Corry raped or assaulted the firefighter several times at a station beginning in 2015, and after the first assaults the victim eventually started fearing it would happen again so she began recording audio of their encounters on a cell phone.
Those recordings were turned over to investigators.
“You can hear the victim stating no numerous times and saying she wanted to go home and telling [Corry] to stop. [Corry] did not stop and continued to object rape the victim,” the charging document reads.
The document goes on to say that when Corry spoke to detectives, he “admitted to one occasion where she did not consent to sexual intercourse” and to “being told numerous times to stop while he was grabbing the victim's breast and vaginal area.”
