A Los Angeles County health inspector has been placed on leave while officials and police investigate allegations that he was caught on tape sexually assaulting a Pomona business owner during an inspection last month. <\/p>\n
Magdy Tawadros, an environmental health specialist with the county\u2019s Department of Public Health, is accused of groping a 45-year-old business owner at her doughnut shop March 24, according to a claim the woman filed against the county April 1. <\/p>\n
The victim, who asked not to be identified, claims Tawadros assaulted her several times in a storage room while her husband was picking up their two children. She resisted, despite fears the inspector would give her shop a bad grade, according to the claim. <\/p>\n
\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t anything that was wanted or desired,\u201d said the woman\u2019s lawyer, Timothy McDonough. <\/p>\n
A security camera in the storage room recorded the assaults, and the victim supplied a copy of the footage to the county with her claim, McDonough said. <\/p>\n
Tawadros gave the shop a 91% approval rating after the inspection, records show. <\/p>\n
\nThe inspector was placed on unpaid leave Monday based on a \u201cpreliminary, internal investigation,\u201d according to a statement released by public health officials Tuesday.
\n\u201cIf the allegations are proved to be correct, we will take swift and decisive action,\u201d the statement said. <\/p>\n
Tawadros was licensed by the state last July and has worked for the county for about six months, McDonough said. <\/p>\n
The victim reported the incident to Pomona police March 29, and they were still investigating Tuesday, said Sgt. Horace Blehr. <\/p>\n
[Updated, 9:25 p.m.: <\/strong>Tawadros is 50 years old. Pomona police said late Tuesday that criminal charges are expected.]<\/p>\n — Molly Hennessy-Fiske <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Los Angeles County health inspector has been placed on leave while officials and police investigate allegations that he was caught on tape sexually assaulting a Pomona business owner during an inspection last month. Magdy Tawadros, an environmental health specialist with the county\u2019s Department of Public Health, is accused of groping a 45-year-old business owner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}