A woman named Meredith Watson has come forward and accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of raping her in 2000 when both attended Duke University.
This comes days after Professor Vanessa Tyson claimed Fairfax sexually assaulted her in 2004 at the DNC Convention.
Watson said she has friends that can corroborate the rape. The two never dated, but were friends. She described the rape as “premeditated and aggressive.”
The attorney representing Watson said the firm has in their possession Watson’s “account of the rape with friends in a series of emails and Facebook messages.”
The Washington Post has more details:
Kaneedreck Adams, 40, who attended Duke with Watson, said that in the spring of 2000, when they lived across from each other in on-campus apartments, Watson came to her crying.“She was upset,” Adams, an attorney, said. “She told me she had been raped and she named Justin.”“She said she couldn’t speak, but she was trying to get up and he kept pushing her down,” Adams. “She said he knew that she didn’t like what was happening, but he kept pushing her down.”The alleged attack happened at fraternity house, Adams said.—Watson’s attorney provided an email exchange from 2016 between Watson and Milagros Joye Brown, a friend from Duke. Brown was inviting a group of Duke friends to a fundraiser for Fairfax, as he launched his campaign for lieutenant governor.“Molly, Justin raped me in college and I don’t want to hear anything about him. Please, please, please remove me form any future emails about him please,” Watson wrote on Oct. 26, 2016.
Fairfax denies the accusation. From The Washington Post:
Fairfax denied the allegations forcefully.“I deny this latest unsubstantiated allegation,” Fairfax said in a statement. “It is demonstrably false. I have never forced myself on anyone ever.”—Fairfax’s statement said he would not resign. “I demand a full investigation into these unsubstantiated and false allegations” the statement said. “I will clear my good name and I have nothing to hide. I have passed two full field background checks by the FBI and run for office in two highly contested elections with nothing like this being raised before.”
Terry McAuliffe has called on Fairfax to resign:
Other Democrats have joined:
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