Karena Virginia has now become the 10th woman to come forward and accuse US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of sexual assault. The Yoga guru recalls an incident from 1998 when she was 27 years old.
As she waited for a car to pick her up in Queens, New York, she said Donald Trump walked up to her and touched her inappropriately.
Addressing a press conference on Thursday, Karena read out her statement and said:
No one has asked me to come forward. Many people advised me to not to speak against Donald Trump or I will also be attacked by him.
The statement also reads:
I was quite surprised when I overheard him talking to the other men about me. Hey, look at this one, he said. We haven’t seen her before. Look at those legs, as though I was an object and not a person.
Find below the complete copy of her statement.
Karena read out her statement during a live press conference on Thursday.
These fresh charges of sexual assault against Trump come right after the third Presidential Debate between the Republican and the Democrat presidential nominee on Wednesday, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Additionally, this is the tenth consecutive charge of sexual assault, following directly after the accusations of the former ‘The Apprentice’ contestant, Summer Zervos.
(With inputs from The Guardian.)
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