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MURFREESBORO — A 45-year-old Murfreesboro woman told police she was sexually assaulted Thursday afternoon, after her medical driver offered to give her a massage, according to a Murfreesboro Police Department report.

The report filed by Officer Joshua Prasser indicated that the victim had taken a medical-transport service to Nashville for a doctor’s appointment and on the ride home, she was upset.

She told police the driver “attempted to comfort her by talking to her and stating that he could help with her medical issues through a massage-therapy service,” according to the report.

The report said the driver stopped by his office to pick up a portable massage table and then he took her home.

Once there, the woman told police, he set the table up in her living room and asked her to partially undress, the report state. She said he did the massage, and it appeared to help, but at the end of the massage he asked her to sit on the edge of the table and put her legs on his shoulders.

She “stated that this made her feel uncomfortable,” the report stated. “She stated that she then heard him takeoff his belt and unzip the zipper to his pants.”

When the man touched his body to hers, the victim told him to stop and asked what he was doing.

“She stated the (the suspect) stopped and said not to worry about it and that she would not feel pain,” according to the report.

The man repeatedly apologized, according to the report. The victim told him repeatedly to leave, finally telling him she forgave him, just to get him to go, she told police.

He left a $20 bill in her living room “to buy dinner with” and left, she told police.

The victim provided police with the driver’s name and description, as well as the medical transport service he works for, and the investigation is ongoing.

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