Jason Waldeck sometimes slept at the Ellis County firehouse where he volunteered, just to be sure he wouldn’t miss a call.
As a high school senior, he would jump out of class or baseball practice to respond to fires, car crashes or whatever else the world threw his way.
He said a brutal sexual assault on him at the fire station in January put an end to that work — but not to his passion. “I wish I was in my truck right now with the sirens blaring on the way to a call,” Waldeck, 20, said Wednesday in his first detailed interview about the alleged attack.
“I put my heart and soul into this department — blood, sweat and tears,” he said, wearing a silver necklace with a fireman’s shield. “I did a lot for complete strangers that will never recognize me ever again.”
Authorities say Preston Thomas Peyrot, 19; Alec Chase Miller, 28; Casey Joe Stafford, 30; Blake Jerold Tucker, 20; and Keith Edward Wisakowsky, 27 sexually assaulted Waldeck with a sausage. They all volunteered with Waldeck at the ESD No. 6 fire department in Waxahachie, which serves unincorporated Ellis County.
Wisakowsky’s girlfriend, Brittany Leanne Parten, is accused of filming the attack on her cellphone.