Christine Blasey Ford has spoken to the Washington Post in regards to the alleged incident with the Supreme Court nominee.
A California girl who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct after they have been in highschool has come ahead, alleging in an interview that Kavanaugh pinned her to a mattress at a Maryland home celebration and clumsily tried to take away her clothes.
Christine Blasey Ford says within the interview with The Washington Post that Kavanaugh and a pal — each “stumbling drunk,” she says — corralled her right into a bed room through the celebration within the early 1980s. She says Kavanaugh groped her over her garments, grinded his physique towards hers and tried to take off her one-piece swimsuit and the outfit she wore over it.
Kavanaugh coated her mouth together with his hand when she tried to scream, she says. “I believed he may inadvertently kill me,” says Ford, 51, and a professor at Palo Alto University in California. “He was making an attempt to assault me and take away my clothes.”
She says she was capable of get away after Kavanaugh’s pal jumped on prime of them and everybody tumbled. Kavanaugh has denied the allegation. He repeated that denial once more Sunday (Sept. 16) via the White House. “I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I didn’t do that again in highschool or at any time,” Kavanaugh mentioned.
Ford says within the interview that she by no means revealed what had occurred to her till 2012, when she and her husband sought {couples} remedy. Portions of her therapist’s notes, which Ford offered to the Post, don’t point out Kavanaugh by title however say Ford reported being attacked by college students “from an elitist boys’ faculty” who went on to turn out to be “extremely revered and high-ranking members of society in Washington.”
Kavanaugh, 53, is a federal appeals decide in Washington. President Donald Trump nominated him in July to exchange retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. The therapist’s notes say 4 boys have been concerned, however Ford says that was an error by the therapist. Ford says 4 boys have been on the celebration, however solely two boys have been within the room on the time.
Ford had contacted the Post via a tip line in early July after it had turn out to be clear that Kavanaugh was on Trump’s shortlist to fill a emptiness however earlier than the Republican president nominated him. A registered Democrat, Ford contacted her consultant in Congress, Democrat Ann Eshoo, across the similar time. In late July, Ford despatched a letter via Eshoo’s workplace to Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the highest Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.
Feinstein revealed late final week that she had obtained a letter, however mentioned the writer didn’t wish to come ahead. Ford informed the Post she determined to come back ahead after watching parts of her story come out with out her permission. She mentioned if anybody was going to inform her story, she wished it to be her. Ford’s lawyer, informed CNN on Monday morning (Sept. 17) that her shopper is prepared to testify earlier than Congress on the allegations towards Kavanaugh.
