A second woman has come forward accusing Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct
Channel: Politics News Network
Date: 2018-09-25

Already reeling from the accusations of sexual assault at a high school party,  the confirmation of Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh hit another pitfall today, with the publication of an article in The New Yorker that reveals a new sexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh while he was a freshman at Yale.

The article by Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow, who broke the story of Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein’s rape allegations, recounts the allegations by Deborah Ramirez, who studied sociology and psychology at Yale while Kavanaugh was also at the University.  Ramirez, now 53, has since worked at a group that helps victims of domestic violence.

She was contacted by the magazine after it learned of her possible involvement in the incident which is now being investigated by at least two Democratic Senators on the Judiciary Committee. Ramirez was initially reluctant to discuss her recollections of the events that occurred during the 1983-84 academic year because her memories were a bit fuzzy and because she had been drinking at the time of the incident in question.

However, after carefully delving more deeply into her memory banks and consulting with a lawyer,  Ms. Ramirez “felt confident enough of her recollections to say that she remembers Kavanaugh had exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party, thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away,” according to the article.

She has now joined Kavanaugh’s previous accuser Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in calling for an FBI investigation of his behavior.

“I would think an F.B.I. investigation would be warranted,” she said.

Here is the full description of the incident as published in The New Yorker:

“Ramirez said that, when both she and Kavanaugh were freshmen at Yale, she was invited by a friend on the women’s soccer team to a dorm-room party. She recalled that the party took place in a suite at Lawrance Hall, in the part of Yale known as the Old Campus, and that a small group of students decided to play a drinking game together. ‘We were sitting in a circle,’ she said. ‘People would pick who drank.’ Ramirez was chosen repeatedly, she said, and quickly became inebriated. At one point, she said, a male student pointed a gag plastic penis in her direction. Later, she said, she was on the floor, foggy and slurring her words as that male student and another stood nearby. (Ramirez identified the two male onlookers, but, at her request, The New Yorker is not naming them.)”

“A third male student then exposed himself to her. ‘I remember a penis being in front of my face,’ she said. ‘I knew that’s not what I wanted, even in that state of mind.’ She recalled remarking, ‘That’s not a real penis,’ and the other students laughing at her confusion and taunting her, one encouraging her to ‘kiss it.’ She said that she pushed the person away, touching it in the process. Ramirez, who was raised a devout Catholic in Connecticut, said that she was shaken. ‘I wasn’t going to touch a penis until I was married,’ she said. ‘I was embarrassed and ashamed and humiliated.’ She remembers Kavanaugh standing to her right and laughing, pulling up his pants. ‘Brett was laughing,’ she said. ‘I can still see his face, and his hips coming forward, like when you pull up your pants.’ She recalled another male student shouting about the incident. ‘Somebody yelled down the hall, “Brett Kavanaugh just put his penis in Debbie’s face,”’ she said. ‘It was his full name. I don’t think it was just “Brett.’” And I remember hearing and being mortified that this was out there'”