By Holley Gilbert
The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon)
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VANCOUVER, Wash. — The state has revoked for 10 years the paramedic certification of a Clark County man facing charges involving sexual assaults on a woman, two teens and two underage girls.
The Washington Department of Health announced Wednesday that it has repealed certification for Shayne Michael Shults, 37, for “engaging in sexual acts with minors” and using a syringe to inject them with “unknown substances.”
Also, Shults concealed a 1987 conviction for attempted indecent liberties with a child on three applications submitted to the state, according to the department’s Office of Emergency Medical Services and Trauma System, which regulates emergency medical technicians.
Shults had been a paramedic for five years with American Medical Response in Vancouver.
According to Clark County Superior Court records, he was arrested in May and later released on bail.
He is charged with one count of second-degree rape of a child, one count of second-degree rape, two counts of second-degree child molestation, one count of third-degree child molestation, two counts of indecent liberties, two counts of furnishing liquor to minors and one count of dealing in depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
The victims were 12, 14, 16, 19 and 25 at the time of the incidents, which date from 1999 to July 2005, according to court documents. Under state law, the age of consent is 16, so the charge against Shults regarding the 16-year-old girl does not refer to her as a child.
Shults’ trial is scheduled for Nov. 20.
According to the arresting officer’s probable cause statement, Shults injected three girls with unknown substances and gave two of them alcohol while having sexual contact. He also took photographs of the two youngest girls, the document said.
The Health Department said it suspended Shults’ certification Aug. 25 and revoked it this week because he did not respond to the state’s statement of charges.