UPDATE: Ambulance Corps Worker Accused of Sexual Harassment Sues Therapist

Editor's note: this article was updated with a response from therapist Karen Savage at 12 p.m.

The Tarrytown Volunteer Ambulance Corps volunteer multiple women is suing the therapist who submitted a letter against him for upwards of a half-million dollars.

In the legal document shared with Patch and filed Wednesday with the Westchester County Clerk, Tarrytown's Karen Savage is being sued for “a sum greater than $500,000, plus attorney fees and costs,” as compensation to Alaric Young for “loss of property rights, emotional and physical pain and suffering, embarrassment, humiliation and loss of reputation.”

Patch is now naming the accused we had previously left unnamed, as Young is now involved in a public lawsuit.

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The court document signed by Stephen R. Lewis, Esq. of Stephens, Baroni, Reilly & Lewis, LLP in White Plains, explains that Savage had sent a damning letter to the ambulance corps on September 27, 2011.

In Savage's professional opinion as a licensed therapist with experience in the study of sexual abuse, she had allegedly concluded, according to this document, that Young had “been sexually inappropriate with members of the Corps and had engaged in offensive conduct; that he had an alcohol problem, was unable to control his behavior, and that he should not be reinstated as a member despite his seventeen (17) year participation with the TVAC.”

Lewis' statement claims that Savage came to these conclusions after having “never met with or ever interviewed the Plaintiff.”

Savage, who is listed online as a marriage and family therapist with an office in Tarrytown, was startled by the news as she had not yet received the notice. "I can't imagine why anybody would do that," she said.

Savage confirmed that she did write a letter to TVAC after interviewing a few of the alleged victims, and "that was all I was asked to do." She said she did this as a volunteer, conveyed in the letter only what she was told by these women, and had "nothing else to say on the matter" beyond "I can't understand this."

Savage's letter, writes Lewis, constitutes libel and was “malicious, reckless, grossly irresponsible,” exposing Young to “public humiliation, contempt, ridicule, disgrace, and induced an evil opinion of him in the public minds of right thinking persons.”

Savage, the court document states, has 20 days to appear, or 30 days if the summons to appear was not personally delivered to her.