Jeffrey Sanford Jr. – Former Paramedic Sentenced

Jeffrey Sanford Jr., a former central Illinois paramedic, has been convicted of sexually assaulting a patient in an ambulance has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.

On Tuesday, Judge Randy Rosenbaum said the paramedic destroyed the public trust in calling for an ambulance when choosing a sentence for Sanford.

Jeffrey Sanford Jr. Case Background

In October Rosenbaum found the 48-year-old Jeffrey Sanford Jr., guilty of two counts of sexual assault in October after forcing a suicidal woman to perform oral sex in the back of an ambulance in July 2019. Judge Randy Rosenbaum noted when convicting Sanford that the victim had immediately reported the assault to hospital staff and that Sanford’s story had changed after DNA evidence tied him to the crime.

Champaign County Assistant State’s Attorney Kristin Alferink also presented evidence linking Sanford to sexually inappropriate conduct with a 10-year-old girl, a woman who called for an ambulance and an 89-year-old woman with dementia. Sanford’s defense attorney, Anthony Bruno, acknowledged his client’s faults but argued for a lighter sentence based on Sanford’s more than 20-year career as a paramedic, adding that he had saved 25 cardiac arrest patients and delivered 36 babies.

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