The journalist E. Jean Carrollwho publicly accused the former president Donald Trump from rape her nearly 30 years ago, filed this Thursday at civil lawsuit in a New York court after opening a special period in the state to seek justice for sex crimes he had prescribed.
taking advantage of Adult Survivors Act of New York, which came into force today, the author requests that the former president be subjected to a jury trial for a crime of injury related to “rape e forced touch”, and requests that you pay him damages with an unspecified amount, according to the complaint examined by EFE extension.
carroll78 years old, already maintains a legal battle for defamation against Trump, 76, after he denied having it broken and made “false accusations” and comments about her, some about her appearance, first when she published her account in a book and magazine article in 2019, and again this year.
The new complaint includes that defamation crime and calls for Trump to step down.
On his Twitter account, the author posted a link to new question and stated that his action could “spoil the Thanksgiving Day of the former president, but it will be nourishing for any woman who has been grabbed, groped, harassedpinched, pushed, attacked, smeared or dragged through the mud by a powerful man”.
Silence until “Me Too”
“About 27 years ago, some jokes in an upscale department store Bergdorf Goodmann on Fifth Avenue in New York took a dark turn when the defendant Donald J. Trump intercepted the complainant E. Jean CarrolHe forced her against a dressing room wall, pinned her with his shoulder and… he raped her”, begins the document.
The reporta details the story of the writer, who was 52 at the time of the alleged rape, and as she later told 2 journalist friends, blamed herself for what happened, decided not to go to the police for fear of tycoon power and social rejection for being a “victim”, and remained silent until the movement broke out Me too.
He also reveals that he has been thinking impeach Trump in 2016, when she saw other women denounce similar acts by the then candidate for White Housebut he didn’t do it out of respect for his mother, a Republican politician that he had months to live, and the possibility that his story fostered a “macho” image among his followers.
The document underlines this carroll he suffered as a result psychological and economic damage lasting, including a “loss of dignity and self-esteem,” he has been unable to have a romantic relationship “since the day he trump raped”, has “not had sex with anyone since that time” and has had difficulty “trusting men”.
Legal change with consequences
The Adult Survivors Act of New York will give one year to sue violations and other sexual assaults – usually prescribed in 5 years – suffered by people over the age of 18, regardless of how long it has been, and an avalanche of complaints is expected from victims who have not had time in the past.
According to local media, about 750 women intend to report the Department of Corrections of the state from suffered sexual abuse while behind bars, while cases related to Jeffrey Epstein and the gynecologist convicted of patient abuse Robert Hadden.
New York approved in 2019 a similar law that opened a special period for victims who suffered sexual abuse when they were minors and which has flooded the courts with some 11,000 complaints, many of them against the Catholic church and the Boy Scoutsand one against him Prince Andrew of England.
Most of the states in the country have passed such legislation minor victimswith the exception of the neighboring state of New Jersey, which opened a legal desk in 2019 that also included adult victims.
With information and image from EFE
