A decorated former city EMT has been convicted of sexually assaulting five women over a 10-year period. Angus Pascall, 36, was convicted of first-degree rape, predatory sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child. The attacks, which started in 2001, were all perpetrated against young women ages 11 to 22.
Among those incidents, Pascall was convicted of raping an 11-year-old in a Bed-Stuy elevator—he was able to do so by shutting down the elevator using his FDNY key, which prevented anyone from interrupting him. The Brooklyn girl, who is now 14, gave detailed testimony about the attack; said she was forced to perform oral sex on Pascall, then was sodomized by him repeatedly. Afterwards, ”he pulled his pants back up, walked out of the elevator and then walked out of the building.” She ran to her apartment and called her mom: "Mommy, I just got raped. Please come home!’”
His other victims included a woman who he forced to perform oral sex inside an elevator in May 2009, a 14-year-old who escaped another attack in October of that year, a woman he raped in an East Flatbush apartment, and a 20-year-old woman he raped at gunpoint in a car in 2010. He used a knife or a gun in each of the assaults, and left his DNA at four of the scenes.
Jurors told the News Pascall took the stand in his own defense, but spent his time making "bizarre boasts of his love of Ferrari sport cars"—"I was surprised by how much attitude he had," said juror Carly McElroy. "It didn't seem to help." Another juror said she was shaken up by the trial: “It made me a little paranoid about walking the streets of Brooklyn," juror Rachel Mannheimer told them. "This is someone who needs to be off the streets."
Pascall is facing life in prison when he is sentenced on February 13th.
