Ex-firefighter sued for stealing severed foot
Ex-firefighter Cynthia Economou sued for stealing Karl Lambert's severed foot
A Florida man is suing an ex-firefighter for stealing his foot.
The limb was lopped off in a car accident in 2008 and retrieved by Cynthia Economou, who admitted taking the foot to help train her body recovery dog.
She was charged with second-degree petit (petty) theft and put on probation for six months.
"It was an unrecognizable mass of flesh," she said at her sentencing in 2009. "It wasn't a clean cut. You couldn't even recognize it as a foot."
The owner of the foot, Karl Lambert, is suing Economou, who also worked as a paramedic, but left her job shortly after the incident.
Describing Economou's theft of the foot, which also included part of Lambert's leg, as "odious and utterly intolerable," the suit seeks unspecified damages.
It also targets the St. Lucis County Fire District, claiming it is "liable for any and all actions" she committed.
Economou insists she didn't "mean any malice" when she swiped Lambert's limb. She has said the body part was trapped in the wreckage of the accident and that she discovered it more than an hour after the victim was taken to the hospital.
Lambert believes the foot could have been reattached if Economou immediately reported finding it. Now, he said, "We'll never know."
Economou, who was named the district's firefighter of the year in 2007, told the sentencing judge she "never meant to cause [Lambert] any pain."
A Florida man is suing an ex-firefighter for stealing his foot.
The limb was lopped off in a car accident in 2008 and retrieved by Cynthia Economou, who admitted taking the foot to help train her body recovery dog.
She was charged with second-degree petit (petty) theft and put on probation for six months.
"It was an unrecognizable mass of flesh," she said at her sentencing in 2009. "It wasn't a clean cut. You couldn't even recognize it as a foot."
The owner of the foot, Karl Lambert, is suing Economou, who also worked as a paramedic, but left her job shortly after the incident.
Describing Economou's theft of the foot, which also included part of Lambert's leg, as "odious and utterly intolerable," the suit seeks unspecified damages.
It also targets the St. Lucis County Fire District, claiming it is "liable for any and all actions" she committed.
Economou insists she didn't "mean any malice" when she swiped Lambert's limb. She has said the body part was trapped in the wreckage of the accident and that she discovered it more than an hour after the victim was taken to the hospital.
Lambert believes the foot could have been reattached if Economou immediately reported finding it. Now, he said, "We'll never know."
Economou, who was named the district's firefighter of the year in 2007, told the sentencing judge she "never meant to cause [Lambert] any pain."
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