Incoming Missouri legislator faces rape accusation from colleague [View all]
A woman set to begin her first term in the Missouri House of Representatives next year has accused one of her future legislative colleagues of rape, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported early Saturday morning.
Cora Faith Walker, of Ferguson, emerged victorious from a Democratic primary in August and will run unopposed this November. In a letter to House Speaker Todd Richardson, House Minority Leader Jake Hummel and House Assistant Minority Leader Gail McCann Beatty, she says that she was a victim of sexual assault and that “my rapist is Steven Roberts, Jr., who hopes to be in the Capitol in January as the Representative of the 77th District.”
“You have spoken about systemic changes you hope to make toward improving the culture at the Capitol so that women can work safely,” her letter states. “I commend and support the changes you have proposed. To that end, I ask that you do everything in your power to prevent Mr. Roberts from perpetrating sexual violence, sexual assault or sexual harassment against me or anyone else in the Capitol. I respectfully request that you not allow Mr. Roberts to be sworn in until this investigation is complete. In the alternative, I ask that his presence in the Capitol be monitored by security.”
She says she filed a police report earlier this week.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article105379786.html
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