A former Utah firefighter is suing her supervisors, the town and the county they worked in, saying the assistant fire chief who allegedly raped her was protected from discipline — allowing further abuse for years — because his father was both the fire chief and a sheriff’s deputy.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Utah’s U.S. District Court, alleges Austin Corry sexually harassed the woman soon after she started at the Kanosh Volunteer Fire Department and that the abuse continued until Corry, an assistant fire chief, was arrested in September.
Aside from quitting her job, the lawsuit said the woman’s only recourse was reporting to Corry’s direct supervisor, his father, Scott Corry.