The lady who accused Pete Hegseth of sexual assault in 2017 informed police on the time that he took her cellphone and blocked her from leaving his lodge room on the night time of the incident, in line with a 22-page police report obtained by ABC Information.
The report, compiled in Oct. 2017 by the Monterey Police Division, gives graphic new particulars of an alleged altercation that now threatens to derail Hegseth’s bid to grow to be President-elect Donald Trump’s Protection Secretary.
The report paperwork a police investigation that didn’t end in costs in opposition to the previous Fox Information star. It contains interviews with the girl, who’s recognized solely as Jane Doe, and Hegseth, who informed police that the encounter was consensual.
U.S. President Donald Trump is interviewed by Fox and Pals co-host Pete Hegseth on the White Home in Washington, U.S. April 6, 2017.
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As ABC Information has beforehand reported, Doe met Hegseth at an occasion hosted by the California Federation of Republican Ladies in Monterey, California, the place Hegseth was featured as a speaker.
At an occasion afterparty, in line with the police report, Doe informed police she had drank “way more than regular” and described her recollections as “fuzzy,” however that she recalled confronting Hegseth at one level after observing him “rub the ladies on their legs” — a declare one different witness confirmed in a separate interview with police.
“JANE DOE said the following reminiscence she had was when she was in an unknown room” with Hegseth, who she stated “took her cellphone from her arms” and, when she tried to depart, “blocked the door together with his physique,” in line with what she informed investigators.
Doe stated she remembered Hegseth’s navy dog-tags “hovering over her face” and stated he ultimately “ejaculated on her abdomen,” in line with the report. Doe informed police that she recalled saying “no” lots in the course of the encounter.
Days later, Doe informed her accomplice she believed she had been the sufferer of a sexual assault and visited a nurse, who administered a sexual assault examination and first alerted the authorities.
When police approached Hegseth as a part of their investigation, he “said that the engagement between himself and JANE DOE was mutual.”
“HEGSETH said there have been a few instances he had made certain JANE DOE was snug with what was happening between the 2 of them,” in line with the report.
The officer who ready the report wrote that the 2 had “been consuming and the occasions had been blurred and lacked specifics and a fluid sequence of occasions.” Investigators obtained video surveillance from the lodge and picked up Doe’s garments and underwear as proof of their probe.
Tim Parlatore, a lawyer for Hegseth, stated within the assertion on Saturday, previous to the report being posted on-line, that the allegations had been false and Hegseth settled in December 2020 solely as a result of he feared his profession would endure if her allegations had been made public.
Parlatore emphasised police didn’t convey costs and stated Hegseth was the sufferer of “blackmail” and “false claims of sexual assault.”
