RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA — A 24-year-old ambulance attendant from Wildomar who sexually assaulted female patients in his care — including a 16-year-old — was sentenced Friday to two years in state prison.
Jason Dean Anderson pleaded guilty in January to two counts of sexual battery for the purpose of sexual arousal. For each count he was sentenced to two years — for a total of four years — but Judge John M. Monterosso ordered the sentences to be served concurrently.
In exchange for Anderson’s guilty pleas, two counts of sexual penetration with a foreign object were dropped.
Prior to Friday’s sentencing, Anderson had remained free on a $75,000 bail bond.
According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, on March 25, 2022, deputies began investigating allegations of sexual assault against a teenage victim. Investigators determined that Anderson, an employee of American Medical Response transportation service, assaulted the girl on March 18, 2022, while he was on-duty in the back of an ambulance.
“Jason Anderson sexually assaulted and solicited sexual acts from the teenage patient during a medical transport,” the sheriff’s department said.
The victim was identified in court documents as B.P.
Deputies arrested Anderson at his residence in the 34300 block of Tanisha Court. At the time, AMR released a statement saying Anderson was suspended and an “internal investigation” was immediately initiated.
Within days of the sheriff’s department investigation starting, a second victim, a woman identified in court documents as S.Z., came forward to say that on March 6, 2022, she was also assaulted by Anderson while under his care.
Anderson’s guilty pleas stem from assaults on each of the victims. An amended criminal complaint against Anderson alleges he masturbated and touched the victims while they were “unlawfully restrained, and institutionalized for medical treatment and seriously disabled and medically incapacitated.”
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Anderson has no documented prior felony convictions in Riverside County. He will have to register as a sex offender with the state as one of the conditions of his parole, according to the plea agreement.
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