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'I am terrified': Christine Blasey Ford details her sexual-assault allegation and the aftermath of going public in her opening statement
Christine Blasey Ford, the California psychology professor who alleges that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when the two were in high school, released the prepared remarks she is scheduled to deliver to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
adding that she and her family were forced out of their Palo Alto home and have been living in "various secure locals, with guards" for the last 10 days.
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The professor insisted that she is not motivated by political opposition to Kavanaugh, but instead by a desire to better inform lawmakers about a man who could serve a life term on the country's highest court.
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"I am a fiercely independent person and I am no one's pawn," she said. "My motivation in coming forward was to provide the facts about how Mr. Kavanaugh's actions have damaged my life, so that you can take that into serious consideration as you make your decision about how to proceed."
Since Ford came forward, two other women have made sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh. Deborah Ramirez alleges that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her and thrust his penis in her face while the two were undergraduates at Yale University. And Julie Swetnick said Kavanaugh engaged in "abusive and physically aggressive behavior toward girls" at house parties in high school in the early 1980s and was present when she was "gang raped" by a group of teenage boys at one of these parties. Kavanaugh has vehemently denied all of the allegations.
Read Christine Blasey Fords remarks in full here:
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