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A decorated former emergency medical technician accused of using his FDNY key to shut down elevators to trap and rape young girls appeared in court on Wednesday to face testimony by the first of his five alleged victims. Among Angus Pascall's alleged victims, prosecutors say the 35-year-old raped an 11-year-old girl after using his fireman's key to stop her elevator. Another similarly alleged victim was aged 19.

He is now charged with five sexual assaults carried out in Brooklyn between 2001 and 2010, all of which he has pleaded not guilty to. Prosecutors say DNA evidence, however, connects him to every single crime.

On Wednesday one of his first victims who was 22-year-old at the time of her alleged attack offered the first harrowing testimony against him.

Trembling before the court, the woman claimed Pascall approached her at her apartment's door in Flatbush in 2001 while asking if he could leave a package with her for her next door neighbour.

After he had left, he sneaked back up and raped her at gunpoint, she said.

'I was scared,' she recalled according to the New York Daily News. 'I was trying not to think about what was happening.'

Adding to his alleged attacks, police say a 14-year-old girl just barely managed to get away after he forced her to the back courtyard of her apartment armed with a gun and a knife in 2009.

It was after he kidnapped a 20-year-old woman, pulling her into his car before raping her, that he was connected to the string of crimes.

After his last alleged victim managed to memorize his car's license plate number, Pascall was arrested two days later in 2010. His DNA was taken from a cup he had been drinking from at the police station.

Pascal, who had been an EMT for five years at the time of his arrest, had been honoured in 2007 after saving a wounded patient's life.

It's that one time heroism which left prosecutors easily viewing him as a New York hero with a secret-double life.