By Alex Riggins
The Times-News
WENDELL, Idaho — A Gooding County emergency medical technician has been charged with twice raping a coworker after she asked him to donate his semen so she could get pregnant.
Prosecutors say Dwayne S. Woodbridge, 36, of Wendell turned violent after the request and terrorized the woman for more than two years. He raped her twice, masturbated in front of her at EMT headquarters and kicked her in the ribs, according to documents filed in Gooding County Magistrate Court.
The woman became pregnant and gave birth after both attacks. He says both pregnancies were by artificial insemination.
Woodbridge was arraigned Nov. 19 on two felony counts of rape, one felony count of domestic battery with traumatic injury and one misdemeanor count of indecent exposure.
Woodbridge is no longer an employee of Gooding County EMS, the organization’s director said Wednesday. Woodbridge is also named as a fire captain on the Wendell Fire Department’s website; calls to Wendell Fire Chief Bob Baily were not returned Wednesday.
The abuse started in early 2012 — before they were coworkers — about a week after the woman asked Woodbridge for sperm to artificially inseminate her, court documents said.
Woodbridge was a close friend at the time, she told deputies, but after he donated his sperm “it was like a switch flipped and he was completely different.”
A week later, the woman was jogging when Woodbridge sexually assaulted her about two blocks from her residence, she told police.
She became pregnant after the first attack, but she isn’t sure if she was impregnated during the artificial insemination or during the assault, court records said.
In that incident, the woman went home after the attack and took a shower, but when she came out of the bathroom Woodbridge was sitting in her living room, court records said. Woodbridge left and returned a short time later with a Wendell Police sergeant; the woman told the sergeant she was raped by someone she didn’t know. She later told deputies she didn’t know why Woodbridge got the sergeant.
The second rape occurred in June 2013 when Woodbridge pushed his way inside the woman’s residence and assaulted her, court documents said. She became pregnant after that attack, as well.
Later, the woman became an EMS employee.
Whenever Woodbridge and the woman worked the same shifts, he masturbated in the common area, she told investigators.
The woman told deputies Woodbridge sexually assaulted her again earlier this year at the EMS headquarters, but he has not been charged in that allegation. In October, Woodbridge kicked her, court records said. Deputies said Woodbridge’s shoe print “looked to be consistent with the bruise on the victim’s rib area.”
The Gooding County Sheriff’s Office began investigating the case last month after EMS Assistant Director Jon Kepler notified investigators that Woodbridge had raped an employee at the EMS headquarters, court records said.
Investigators taped a phone conversation between Woodbridge and the woman in which he admitted to masturbating in front of her and promised never to do it again, court records said.
The woman also told deputies Woodbridge drives by her residence up to 30 times a day, sits outside her home in his car and sometimes comes over uninvited to chop wood in the yard or clean the gutters, court documents said. The woman also suspects Woodbridge of breaking into her home and stealing her underwear.
In an interview with investigators, Woodbridge admitted to the masturbation and massaging the woman at work, but he denied raping her.
He said he is the father of two of the woman’s children, but that she was impregnated through artificial insemination both times, court records said. Woodbridge agreed to take a polygraph test but canceled the next day, saying he needed to meet with a lawyer.
A new case was filed in Gooding County court, a warrant was issued and Woodbridge was arrested Nov. 18, court records said. He is being held in Gooding County jail in lieu of $50,000 bond, and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 17.
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