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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 10:32 AM Apr 2019

Justin Fairfax Accuser Calls For Virginia Lt. Gov to Resign; Details Alleged Assault:...

Justin Fairfax Accuser Calls For Virginia Lt. Gov to Resign; Details Alleged Assault: I Was ‘Choking and Gagging’

by Ken Meyer | Apr 1st, 2019, 8:15 am

Vanessa Tyson got emotional on Monday as she gave an interview to CBS and shared graphic details about her claim that Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax sexually assaulted her years ago.

Tyson drew media attention approximately two months ago when she came forward with her claim that Fairfax forced himself on her when they met at a Democratic convention in Boston back in 2004. As she spoke to Gayle King about how she knew Fairfax and wound up inside of his hotel room, Tyson recalled how she was “surprised” when Fairfax started kissing her.

While she said the kissing “wasn’t unwelcome” and was “completely consensual,” Tyson described how she and Fairfax ended up on his bed, and she started crying when she recalled the moment when “it’s like my neck didn’t work.”

“I couldn’t feel my neck, I couldn’t hold my neck up. he’s using his hand on the back of my neck and I didn’t know what was going wrong. I thought there was something wrong with my neck, and he’s pushing down and pushing down and I couldn’t hold my neck up and I didn’t know what was going on. I honestly didn’t know what was going on. The next thing I know my head is literally in his crotch and I’m choking and gagging and I couldn’t say anything because I’m choking and gagging. and so, it continues and he’s holding my head…I’m trying to lift my head and I can’t.”


more + video:
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/justin-fairfax-accuser-speaks-out-i-was-choking-and-gagging-as-he-put-my-head-towards-his-crotch/
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58Sunliner

(4,384 posts)
6. Ted Bundy passed one also. Apparently sociopaths/psychopaths have lower anxiety during the test.
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 11:30 AM
Apr 2019

Green River Killer Gary Ridgway passed one also. It is not hard to do. Many factors are involved. For all I know Fairfax lies to himself all the time, kind of like DT. Child molesters talk about children seducing them. It is the way these perps think.

DFW

(54,365 posts)
3. Crickets for two months about this. Then Joe Biden. Suddenly this is revived.
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 11:10 AM
Apr 2019

Nothing about ONE Republican. Only "offensive" Democrats. The timing is purely coincidence, right?

No coordination at all of all this, noooooooooooooooooo.

Next up: JFK and Marilyn Monroe!

58Sunliner

(4,384 posts)
4. Really? The victim goes on TV and it's a conspiracy?? She is a liberal, a well educated person.
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 11:21 AM
Apr 2019

I'm pretty sure she has better things to do than fabricate a rape allegation.

DFW

(54,365 posts)
5. If the allegation is legit
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 11:28 AM
Apr 2019

Why is it news for two weeks, silence for 2 months, and then flares up within 48 hours of Joe Biden's "offense," which was 5 years ago, and suddenly is remembered at a time when his popularity is perceived as a threat to another candidate his accuser is close to?

If the timing of these accusations is a complete coincidence, so be it.

All the same, the likelihood of this being indeed a complete coincidence strikes me as rather remote.

58Sunliner

(4,384 posts)
7. I'd call it coincidence. What I can say-you seem like a conspiracy theorist.
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 11:38 AM
Apr 2019

The reality is about how a victim processes an assault and it's aftermath are the issue.

DFW

(54,365 posts)
8. Oh, sure. I'm a conspiracy theorist. I know alll about the aliens from area 51, too.
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 11:42 AM
Apr 2019

And flouridation of water is a communist plot while you're at it.

As it turns out, I just am skeptical of strings of coincidences.

I've been on DU for nearly 13 years, and have been with the same wonderful woman for 45 years. Your creds don't matter to me, but you haven't been around long. It might be worth your while to check out who you're calling this or that before it becomes a habit.

MissB

(15,806 posts)
9. Exactly.
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 12:10 PM
Apr 2019

You’re the real thing!

And it warms my heart to hear you say what you’re saying here. I just wish more would hear it.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
10. Fuck that shit...
Tue Apr 2, 2019, 10:42 AM
Apr 2019

She doesn't get to try this case in the court of public opinion and snipe Fairfax from the safety of some cushy network news studio...

If she wants **JUSTICE**, then she knows what she needs to do, and that is officially press charges in Massachusetts... And no, Fairfax resigning from a job he's already leaving in two years anyway is NOT justice...

And if Tyson still refuses to press charges I'm perfectly within my rights to ask why...

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