Monday, October 12, 2009
Veteran Nashville firefighter resigns after admitting to sex in fire station. Name surfaced in probe of prostitution ring.
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By Nicole Young at the Tennessean.com:A Nashville firefighter has admitted to investigators that he paid women to have sex with him at the Murfreesboro Pike fire hall where he worked, Metro Police said Friday.
Terry Canady, a 23-year veteran firefighter, resigned from the department on Thursday.
He will keep his department benefits and has taken an early service pension, said Nashville Fire Department spokeswoman Kim Lawson.
"Chief (Steve) Halford has requested a thorough review into the matter," Lawson said. The review will begin Monday.
"We will be looking to see if anyone knew this was going on," she said. "But we have received no information regarding the involvement of any other employees."
Metro Police spokesman Don Aaron said Canady is not facing any criminal charges right now.
"At best, he'd be guilty of a misdemeanor for which a citation could be issued," Aaron said. "But the police department did not witness this and there's no evidence other than what people have said."
Canady admitted to calling prostitutes and receiving services from them as recently as last summer, Aaron said.
Investigators say the women he called were involved in a family prostitution ring. Teresa West, 45, of Nashville, and her son and daughter, Casey West, 20, and Diana West, 22, were charged in federal court with using a minor for commercial sex in August.
The mother also is charged in state court with trafficking for sexual servitude and promoting prostitution.
Though a federal investigation has focused on underage girls' being involved in West's business, police do not believe any of the women who visited Canady were underage.
Lawson says she worries about how Canady's actions will affect the department.
"We have a very good and very hardworking fire department and for an employee to do something like this is an embarrassment," she said. "To our knowledge, nothing like this has ever happened at the fire department before."
Two fire engines are housed at the station where Canady worked, along with a staff of about six to eight people who work 24-hour shifts with 48 hours off.
Investigators did not say where in the building or when the sex acts occurred.
Lawson said she wasn't aware of any past disciplinary actions in Canady's file.
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I would file a grievance over me losing my job. WHy?
Because at the fire acadamy they were the ones who taught me to lay hose.
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Because at the fire acadamy they were the ones who taught me to lay hose.
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