ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A state lawmaker from Brooklyn has been accused in a lawsuit of raping a girl early in his legislative profession when he went to her residence to debate catastrophe reduction efforts for Haiti.
The lawsuit, filed Friday, accuses Sen. Kevin Parker of assaulting her in 2004, throughout his first time period. The lady stated she had been working with Parker to coordinate the supply of things and donations to Haiti after a devastating flood that affected the nation and different neighboring Caribbean Islands.
The swimsuit was filed below the Grownup Survivors Act, a particular state regulation that created a year-long suspension of the standard time restrict for accusers to sue. The regulation is ready to run out after Thanksgiving.
A spokesperson for Parker, a Democrat, didn’t instantly remark when requested in regards to the lawsuit.
A spokesperson for the Senate’s high Democrat, Majority Chief Andrea Stewart-Cousins, stated the allegations have been “extraordinarily disturbing and we take them very significantly.”
“We’ll take acceptable motion as extra data is discovered,” stated the spokesperson, Mike Murphy.
The lady stated within the lawsuit that the assault occurred after Parker got here to her house to choose up images from a go to she had made to Haiti. Parker represents a part of Brooklyn with a big Caribbean and Haitian group.
After they completed discussing her work, the girl stood as much as say goodbye when Parker grabbed her wrists, took her down a hallway to her bed room, made a sexual remark, after which raped her, the lawsuit stated.
E-mail and cellphone messages left for the girl’s legal professionals weren’t instantly returned. The Related Press typically doesn’t identify individuals who say they’ve been sexually assaulted except they arrive ahead publicly.
In 2005, Parker was arrested and charged with third-degree assault after punching a visitors agent who gave him a ticket for double-parking, based on information experiences from that point. In that very same 12 months, a former aide accused Parker of threatening her after she publicly complained that he shoved and hit her when she labored for him.
Parker was additionally convicted of misdemeanor felony mischief expenses in 2010 after he chased a New York Publish photographer and broken their digicam.
