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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDr. Ford told her therapist in 2012
about the incident.
We now have at least a few people coming forward from her high school days that say people knew about the incident after it happened.
I just wanted my memory confirmed here, as I could not find it via googling - Ford, or her attorney, mentioned that she also told friends about it contemporaneously back in the day as well. Is that correct? I could swear I read that somewhere before today?
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)Ford said she never told anyone about the attack until 2012, when she was in couples therapy with her husband.
The Post said portions of the therapists notes were made available to the paper and that, while Kavanaugh wasnt mentioned by name, the records indicated that Ford told her therapist that she had been attacked by students from an elitist boys school who went on to become highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington.
Notes from an individual therapy session the following year show Ford described a rape attempt in her late teens.
Fords husband, Russell Ford, told The Post that in their 2012 therapy sessions, she recounted the attack and that she used Kavanaughs last name and voiced concern that he might one day be nominated to the Supreme Court. Ford also took a polygraph test, administered by a former FBI agent, on the advice of her attorney in early August, the paper said. The test concluded she was being truthful when she said a statement summarizing her allegations was accurate.
Ford said she does not remember some key details of the incident but believes it occurred in the summer of 1982, when she was 15, around the end of her sophomore year at the all-girls Holton-Arms School in Bethesda. Kavanaugh would have been 17 at the end of his junior year at Georgetown Prep.
WaPo article said
"Ford said she told no one of the incident in any detail until 2012,"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?utm_term=.76baced4cdd5
So she might have told others a shorter version without details.
and, others near the room could have heard about it
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)Mark Judge (Kavanaugh's friend in the room) or Kavanaugh himself bragged or joked about it during one of their drunken evenings. Maybe she told someone more than she thought ..
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)"He just attacked me" or "he just tried to rape me" - that's not detailed at all.
I mean, a 15 year old that went through this was probably really shaken up and likely not want to go into detail (heck, anybody that went through that would be shaken up, but a 15 year old even more so)
and, then others hearing that follow up with Judge and/or Kavanaugh or just talk to others about the incident with other girls and pretty soon a bunch of people know.
(Was it in a dormitory/residence hall or elsewhere?)
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)"The assault occurred in a suburban Maryland area home at a gathering that included me and four others."
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I'm so pissed off at Kavanaugh.
RockCreek
(739 posts)They might have seen or heard part of what happened (in spite if Kavanaugh's efforts). They may have seen her afterwards and concluded something bad had happened from how she looked and acted. They could have asked her a question that she has no memory of being asked or answering. Kavanaugh and/or Judge may have said something afterwards.
JHB
(37,162 posts)It happened during a party, so there people were around. If she disappears for a while and then is next seen visibly upset or acting upset in the days afterward, the other girls can put 2 and 2 together.
Add to that the probability of Kavanaugh and his buddy boasting to their buddies about getting some action, where Ford's classmates can overhear them, and that's another "2" to add.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Clearly Dr. Ford is part of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood of the Time Traveling Pants, a sinister cabal of women who routinely go back in time to embarrass good men when those men are about to realize the pinnacles of their careers.
I'm surprised Alex Jones and Fox haven't picked up on this. Yet.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)already seen that bandied about on Twitter, which is why I wanted to make sure of the wording when I do respond.