Video Shows Teen Girl Accusing Sacramento Mayor Johnson of Sexual Abuse

[tishaLA]

Today, Kevin Johnson is mayor of Sacramento, Calif., and Mandi Koba is a mother of three and an advocate for survivors of sexual abuse. Only they know what happened between them in the summer of 1995, when she was 16 and he was a star guard for the Phoenix Suns, and each has a different version of events.

Koba’s recollections of what happened with Johnson, whom she met when she was 15, have been circulating for years in the form of a police report that includes a transcript of the questioning she was given by Detective Art Smith of the Phoenix Police Department in 1996. You can read that report in full here. In it, she describes Johnson lying naked with her, fondling her breasts and vagina, lathering soap on her in the shower, brushing his penis against her, and asking her to pray to God for forgiveness with him and promise not to tell anyone about what they’d done. <...>

Johnson was not charged in the Koba case, nor has he ever been charged with a sex crime. Johnson has, however, repeatedly been accused of sexual abuse of girls and young women, most famously in a federal investigation into St. HOPE, a chain of charter schools he runs in Sacramento, his hometown. (Neither Johnson’s longtime lawyers, Fred Hiestand and Kevin Hiestand, nor his mayoral press secretary, Ben Sosenko, responded to multiple requests for comment for the Koba story.) <...> Deadspin <VIDEO AT LINK>

For those who don't know, Johnson is an absolutely awful person. He destroyed the National Conference of Black Mayors. He's married to reviled education "reformer" Michelle Rhee:



He has a shadow government. How he has avoided indictment thus far is beyond me.

[NV Whino]

1. Wearing tennis shoes and a wrinkled suit to his wedding is enough to condem him in my book.

[NaturalHigh]

2. Wow, I'd never read about this before.

I don't follow the NBA, so I've never even heard of Kevin Johnson.