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The 2019 Pennsylvania State Fireman's Association EMS Leadership Award recipient, 53-year-old Douglas Allen Shields of Mount Holly Springs has been charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl, according to court records and the Yellow Breeches EMS, Inc.'s Facebook page.
Shields "has been suspended indefinitely from his position and employment with Yellow Breeches EMS, pending the outcome of the criminal case," the company said in a statement on Facebook late on Tuesday, January 31.
On Jan. 26, he was arraigned on felony charges of statutory sexual assault: 11 years or older, aggravated indecent assault- complaint less than 16, corruption of minors- defendant age 18 or above, sexual assault by volunteer or employee of nonprofit, sexual assault by volunteer or employee of nonprofit, as well as a misdemeanor for indecent assault of a person less than 16 years of age, according to his court docket.
While he was "a senior leader of the ambulance company" and the teenage girl was a "junior trainee" who came to the station on the weekends and participated in "ride-along" over the course of several months starting in March 2021, according to the affidavit of probable cause.
In May 2022, the girl showed state police in Carlisle messages of Shields asking her to have sex with him. In the conversation, he asked her if “I have to worry about things getting out,” to which she later wrote "you'd murder me lol" he replied "I hope it would kill me. I worry about that." to which she responded "you can trust me papa Doug," the police shared in the affidavit.
The pair had sex in the station between seven to ten times, and the girl went to his home, later describing an old wooden clock he had above the door— the same clock troopers later saw when they interviewed him at his home, the police explain in the court documents.
Shields was released on $25,000 in bail and his preliminary hearing has been set before Magisterial District Judge Daniel Freedman on March 22, 2023, at 9:30 a.m., according to his court docket.
Shields's image is still featured on the main image on the company website's home page as of Feb. 1, 2023.
Editor's Note: The article was updated within the first 24 hours of posting after Daily Voice received requested court documents.
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