Professor Details Brett Kavanaugh Sex Misconduct Allegation

WASHINGTON, DC — A professor at Palo Alto University in California has come forward as the person who wrote a secret letter to Senate Democrats accusing U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct. Christine Blasey Ford told The Washington Post that Kavanaugh drunkenly tried to "attack" her during a house party in the early 1980s while they were both high schoolers in suburban Maryland. The skeleton version of her story became public last week without her name — or consent.

Ford told The Post that Kavanaugh and a friend were both deeply intoxicated when they ushered her into a bedroom in Montgomery County. She said Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back and, while the friend watched, and groped her over her clothes. Kavanaugh grinded his body against hers, she alleged, and tried to take off both her one-piece bathing suit and clothes she was wearing over it. Ford said she tried to scream but that Kavanaugh covered her mouth with his hand.

“I thought he might inadvertently kill me,” Ford told The Post. “He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing.”

Ford said she escaped when one of Kavanaugh’s friends at Georgetown Preparatory School jumped on top of them.

In a statement the White House sent The Post last week, Kavanaugh flatly denied the initial allegation.

“I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time,” he said.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee who referred the initial information to federal authorities, praised Ford in a statement Sunday for coming forward.

"It has always been Mrs. Ford's decision whether to come forward publicly," Feinstein said. "For any woman, sharing an experience involving sexual assault — particularly when it involves a politically connected man with influence, authority and power — is extraordinarily difficult."

Feinstein said she believed the allegations were extremely serious and called into question Kavanaugh's character. Now, she said, it's in the hands of the FBI to conduct and investigation.

"This should happen before the Senate moves forward on this nominee," Feinstein said.

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