Well-known Union Leader Faces Sexual Assault Allegations

Tonight, a prominent union leader and activist is facing allegations of sexual assault. The incident reportedly occurred six years ago, and the woman he allegedly raped has yet to receive justice, despite her efforts to have him arrested and charged. The victim, who wishes to remain anonymous, shared her story with us, recounting how it all began with unwanted advances at work.

 

Voice of:  Alleged Rape Victim

“I was raped by him on April thirteenth, 2019. It was like early hours of the morning. He did that because apparently he wanted a relationship with me. I kept refusing him, I kept telling him I wasn’t interested in him, but over a period of time he gained my trust. From early 2017, he was making these advances at me, trying to get me in a relationship with him. I didn’t know this guy, I had absolutely no interest in him whatsoever. So I kept telling him that I wasn’t interested in him and that I did not come here for that. I did not come here to hook up with people. Over a period of time, he kind of gain my trust and my respect a bit because I thought that he was fighting for some just some right. I remember I was working on April twelfth, 2019. I was working a three-to-eleven shift and I think sometime, either earlier, I think it was earlier that day but he was trying to get me to go out with him, as usual because he was always inviting me and trying to get me to go out with him and I never went and wasn’t interested. And I told him this, at some point I said, “I would just go and have a sit-down with you under one condition, that we will further discuss the union issues and work-related stuff, how you go about doing certain things and soh. So we agreed on that. I thought that we would go and drive around a bit, discuss these things and he would bring me back home. I had no plans of really going out because me and he noh di goh out. Yoh know, we noh have nothing and that interest isn’t there . Soh anyway, I seh okay. So he took me to this place up the road, Rustic Korner. And one of the first things I said to him when we were there. Soh I seh I hyah yoh have wahn woman. Ih seh yes, I seh that’s a no-no between me and you because I noh play with people man. And ah tell ahn, ah seh di same thing, like ah tell yoh, I just cohn da work cohn work. I noh fool rung, I noh deh wid nobody, di try hook up with nobody rung da compound cause I fraid fi sickness. I always di stress this and people weh know me, know that that something I always. I tell ahn look, I just wahn goh home after he di push to me fi get wid he and I di tell ahn I noh interested and I noh wahn get with yoh and ih noh wahn happen. That’s another thing I told him plain… Look ih noh wahn happen. So I told him, I just want to go home and so on the way from Rustic, between this, this happened on the roadside, you know, between Rustic and Haulover.  Somewhere, like ten to fifteen minutes, he seh he wahn stop and tek a leak. Now, that normal, guys stop and seh dehn wahn tek a leak and I noh tek dat as nothing. Di quickness ah weh he haul up my dress, dreg down my tights and di pull, di try, yoh know, do weh ih do but he raped me. He forced himself on me and ah noh wahn give all di details but he raped me.”