North Carolina Medic Charged with Soliciting Sex from Patient

Nov. 2 -- A paramedic sergeant with Onslow County Emergency Services was suspended with pay after he was charged with soliciting sex from a woman he met while providing treatment at a wreck last month.

Terry Turner, 48, of Queens Street in Hubert, was charged Oct. 26 by the Onslow County Sheriff's Department with solicit for prostitution and obstructing justice, according to warrants. The charges are both misdemeanors.

The woman, who was solicited, had been charged with driving while impaired, and Turner allegedly told her that he could get the charge dismissed or reduced if she had sexual intercourse or oral sex with him, according to warrants.

The woman reported to the Sheriff's Department that a man called her several times soliciting sex, but she couldn't identify him, said Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown.

The man allegedly set up a meeting with the woman in the parking lot of Albert J. Ellis Airport. She went to the parking lot along with deputies from the Sheriff's Ddepartment. It was at that time that the man was identified as Turner, Brown said.

"We went there to cover her and prevent something from happening to her," Brown said. "That's when we found out it was (Turner.)"

Turner was one of the paramedics who responded to the wreck the woman was involved in, which led to her driving while impaired charge.

Turner, who has worked with EMS since November 1999, was placed on nondisciplinary suspension with pay Friday pending an internal investigation. Turner's salary is $37,280, said Tom Morgan, the director of the county's Human Resources Department.

Contact staff writer Roselee Papandrea at 353-1171, ext. 238.

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