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A White Oak emergency medical technician is suspended without pay after police charged her with failing to get help for her two young sons who were repeatedly tortured and abused, police said at the hand of her live-in boyfriend.Jana Mannarino, 32, is charged with one count of felony endangering the welfare of children. State police in Greensburg say her boyfriend, Barry Woods, 36, repeatedly beat, choked, threw, squeezed and abused her sons, 6 and 8, in horrific ways at her Grapeville mobile home.VIDEO: Watch Ashlie Hardway's report"Almost a form of torture that they were being subjected to," said Trooper Stephen Limani. "I haven't read about a case where a person didn't die when they had to be subjected to what these boys were subjected to. I can only imagine the impact it had on their lives."Woods was arrested and charged by police in February, but police charged Mannarino Thursday after they said she never reported the abuse or sought medical care for her sons, even after her two daughters, who were not abused, told her what was happening."It appears that two girls even were trying to explain to their mother what was happening while she wasn't at the house," Limani said.Mannarino apparently told police she was afraid she would lose her job at White Oak EMS if she reported the abuse. A full-time EMT now suspended, Mannarino told the boys' father she was also worried Children and Youth Services would get involved if she reported the abuse."There was no indication that anything was out of the ordinary in her personal life," said White Oak EMS Chief Paul Falavolito.Falavolito said if Mannarino would have reported the abuse, he and his colleagues would have done anything they could to help her."She didn't really mention anything to anyone here, to the best of my knowledge. I could tell she was certainly troubled by everything that was happening, but there were no formal statements from her," Falavolito said. "It was a tremendous shock to all of us here. When this all happened, we all poured our support to one of our fellow employees, and to hear how this has ended is very tragic for everybody."Mannarino had worked at White Oak EMS for about two years. Falavolito said her employment is contingent upon the outcome of the criminal case against her.Mannarino is out on bond and hung up the phone when Action News 4 reporter Ashlie Hardway called her Monday afternoon. Neither she nor her mother, Linda Critchlow, who posted Mannarino's bond, answered the door when Hardway knocked.Woods is from North Carolina, where he was charged with several crimes from forgery to breaking and entering over the past 18 years. Mannarino met him online.Mannarino is pregnant with Woods' child, due in June. Mannarino and Woods are both scheduled for preliminary hearings April 17 in front of Judge Joseph DeMarchis in Jeannette.