Two more women accuse Costa Rica's Oscar Arias of sexual assault

[Judi Lynn]

Source: NBC News


The accusations come after the former president, a Nobel peace laureate, was named in a criminal complaint this week.

Feb. 7, 2019, 8:34 AM CST
By Associated Press

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Two more women have accused former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, a Nobel peace laureate, of sexual misconduct after a criminal complaint alleging sexual assault against another woman was filed against him this week in the Central American nation.

Eleonora Antillon, a well-known Costa Rican journalist and TV presenter, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Arias assaulted her in the mid-1980s when she was working for his fledgling presidential bid.

In a separate interview, Emma Daly, communications director for Human Rights Watch, said Arias groped her in a hotel lobby in Nicaragua in 1990 when she was working as a young journalist based in Costa Rica.

The New York Times also reported that a fourth woman, a 53-year-old book editor, alleged that Arias unexpectedly put his hand on her leg during a meeting in 2012. AP was not immediately able to confirm the report.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/more-women-come-forward-after-oscar-arias-sexual-assault-complaint-n968741

[McKim]

1. Groping the Communications Director for Human Rights Watch!!!

Wow, if this is true, then Arias is really stupid or out of control. Who in their right mind would do this to such an important person with infinite media access and with an important job in this well respected organization with ties all over Latin America!

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. That accusation is from 1990, when she was a young journalist

The 2 accusations from this decade are from unnamed women without high profile jobs.