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China Daily | Updated: 2018-09-18 09:26
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Accuser's story of attack roils plan for vote on Trump's Supreme Court pick

WASHINGTON-A college professor went public for the first time on Sunday to accuse US President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick of sexually assaulting her in the 1980s, prompting calls to postpone the nomination vote.

Christine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University, initially detailed the allegations about Brett Kavanaugh in confidential letters to her local congresswoman and later to California Senator Dianne Feinstein, a senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.

Now Ford has told The Washington Post she had decided to waive her anonymity because she felt her "civic responsibility" was "outweighing my anguish and terror about retaliation" after the basic outlines of the story emerged in media last week.

Kavanaugh had released a statement on Friday denying the incident, saying: "I categorically and unequivocal ly deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time."

The White House and other Kavanaugh supporters had also dismissed the allegation.

Ford, who is a registered Democrat, told The Post in an interview that one summer in the early 1980s, Kavanaugh and a friend, both of whom were "stumbling drunk", cornered her in a bedroom at a teenagers' party in a house in Montgomery County, just outside Washington.

Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed while his friend watched, she said, then groped her while attempting to remove her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing on top of it.

When she attempted to scream for help, Kavanaugh put his hand over her mouth.

"I thought he might inadvertently kill me," said Ford, who is now 51 years old and lives in northern California. "He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing."

She said she was finally able to escape when another of Kavanaugh's classmates at his prestigious private school, Mark Judge, jumped on top of them, whereupon all three were sent tumbling and she was able to escape the room, first locking herself in a bathroom briefly before fleeing the house.

She added she did not tell anyone about the attack until 2012 when she brought it up during couples counseling therapy with her husband.

The therapist's notes from the time, seen by the Post, do not mention Kavanaugh by name but otherwise echo the claim, describing an attack by students "from an elitist boys' school" who went on to become "highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington".

Notes from a subsequent therapy session a year later describe the attack as a "rape attempt".

'An insult to women'

A number of Judiciary Committee members urged holding off on a vote in light of Ford's testimony-including Republican Jeff Flake, a vocal critic of Trump, who told The Post that she "must be heard" first.

One of 11 Republicans on the panel with 10 Democrats, Flake's support is key to moving forward.

The Judiciary Committee is currently due to vote on the nomination on Sept 20. A vote of the full Senate would follow if the committee approves his nomination.

"I've made it clear that I'm not comfortable moving ahead with the vote on Thursday if we have not heard her side of the story or explored this further," Flake said.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said he would "gladly listen" to further comments from Ford, urging it must "be done immediately so the process can continue as scheduled".

Chuck Schumer, who is the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, also called on the committee's Republican chairman to postpone the vote so the accusations could be probed.

"For too long, when women have made serious allegations of abuse, they have been ignored. That cannot happen in this case," he said.

"To railroad a vote now would be an insult to the women of America and the integrity of the Supreme Court."

AFP-AP-Reuters

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