A former assistant chief with the Kanosh Fire Department was sentenced Tuesday after he plead guilty to four second-degree felony counts of forcible sexual abuse with a fellow firefighter.
In 2018 Austin Corry, 29, was charged with sexually assaulting and raping a female co-worker under his supervision after she brought recorded evidence to police.
The victim said it felt like he was abusing his authority as a supervisor to assault her at the fire department, according to a report by KSL.com.
The victim told the fire chief, Scott Corry, who is Austin's father, but the assaults continued to happen over a three year period beginning in 2015.
Scott served 12 months of probation after pleading pled guilty to obstructing justice after the assaults were reported to him.
"I want you to feel what it's like to feel the way that I do every single day, the way I've felt for the last seven years and to know what you have done is not OK," the victim said in court. "And I am not all right. Austin, you knew what you did to me. You knew what you did was wrong. You knew I didn't want it to happen but continued to do it. You continually apologized to me and told me you would never do it again, (it) would not ever happen again. Somehow I'm the one paying the price."
In November 2016, Austin was charged with rape after he assaulted a woman who delivered cookies to the fire station. The charged were dropped in a plea deal with the larger case.
Austin was sentenced to between one and 15 years in prison.
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