A journalist who alleges that Donald Trump raped her in the mid-1990s has filed an upgraded lawsuit under a new law that protects victims of sexual assault decades after attacks may have occurred
Former US president Donald Trump Image: Alamy Stock Photo A JOURNALIST WHO alleges that Donald Trump raped her in the mid-1990s has filed an upgraded lawsuit under a new law that protects victims of sexual assault decades after attacks may have occurred.
The upgraded lawsuit by Carroll, an author and former columnist for Elle magazine, accuses Trump of battery, “when he forcibly raped and groped” her, and for defamation in a post on his Truth Social account last month where he denied the alleged rape. Carroll first made her claim of sexual assault against Trump in a 2019 book, alleging that Trump raped her in a changing room at Bergdorf Goodman, an upscale department store in New York, in late 1995 or early 1996.But until New York’s new Adult Survivors Act took effect yesterday, Carroll could not file the battery claim because the alleged incident had occurred too long ago.
But “this case is unfortunately an abuse of the purpose of this Act which creates a terrible precedent running the risk of delegitimizing credibility of actual victims,” she told AFP in an email.
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