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NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 12:16 PM Sep 2018

Dr. Ford told her therapist in 2012

about the incident.

We now have at least a few people coming forward from her high school days that say people knew about the incident after it happened.

I just wanted my memory confirmed here, as I could not find it via googling - Ford, or her attorney, mentioned that she also told friends about it contemporaneously back in the day as well. Is that correct? I could swear I read that somewhere before today?

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Dr. Ford told her therapist in 2012 (Original Post) NewJeffCT Sep 2018 OP
Here's something that might help Jarqui Sep 2018 #1
Thanks NewJeffCT Sep 2018 #6
Maybe the other boys in the house talked about it or Jarqui Sep 2018 #8
she could have said a lot of things NewJeffCT Sep 2018 #9
According to Dr Ford, it took place in a house Jarqui Sep 2018 #10
Oh but there's no proof JonLP24 Sep 2018 #2
Other kids were in the house RockCreek Sep 2018 #3
Plenty of ways other others could talk about it without her telling anyone JHB Sep 2018 #4
That's just how tricksy women are gratuitous Sep 2018 #5
I believe at least a few of them have NewJeffCT Sep 2018 #7

Jarqui

(10,126 posts)
1. Here's something that might help
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 12:29 PM
Sep 2018
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/16/brett-kavanaugh-accuser-speaks-out-washington-post/1328625002/
Ford said she never told anyone about the attack until 2012, when she was in couple’s therapy with her husband.

The Post said portions of the therapist’s notes were made available to the paper and that, while Kavanaugh wasn’t mentioned by name, the records indicated that Ford told her therapist that she had been attacked by students “from an elitist boys’ school” who went on to become “highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington.”

Notes from an individual therapy session the following year show Ford described a “rape attempt” in her late teens.

Ford’s husband, Russell Ford, told The Post that in their 2012 therapy sessions, she recounted the attack and that she used Kavanaugh’s last name and voiced concern that he might one day be nominated to the Supreme Court. Ford also took a polygraph test, administered by a former FBI agent, on the advice of her attorney in early August, the paper said. The test concluded she was being truthful when she said a statement summarizing her allegations was accurate.

Ford said she does not remember some key details of the incident but believes it occurred in the summer of 1982, when she was 15, around the end of her sophomore year at the all-girls Holton-Arms School in Bethesda. Kavanaugh would have been 17 at the end of his junior year at Georgetown Prep.


WaPo article said
"Ford said she told no one of the incident in any detail until 2012,"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html?utm_term=.76baced4cdd5

So she might have told others a shorter version without details.

Jarqui

(10,126 posts)
8. Maybe the other boys in the house talked about it or
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 01:12 PM
Sep 2018

Mark Judge (Kavanaugh's friend in the room) or Kavanaugh himself bragged or joked about it during one of their drunken evenings. Maybe she told someone more than she thought ..

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
9. she could have said a lot of things
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 01:17 PM
Sep 2018

"He just attacked me" or "he just tried to rape me" - that's not detailed at all.

I mean, a 15 year old that went through this was probably really shaken up and likely not want to go into detail (heck, anybody that went through that would be shaken up, but a 15 year old even more so)

and, then others hearing that follow up with Judge and/or Kavanaugh or just talk to others about the incident with other girls and pretty soon a bunch of people know.

(Was it in a dormitory/residence hall or elsewhere?)

RockCreek

(739 posts)
3. Other kids were in the house
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 12:37 PM
Sep 2018

They might have seen or heard part of what happened (in spite if Kavanaugh's efforts). They may have seen her afterwards and concluded something bad had happened from how she looked and acted. They could have asked her a question that she has no memory of being asked or answering. Kavanaugh and/or Judge may have said something afterwards.

JHB

(37,161 posts)
4. Plenty of ways other others could talk about it without her telling anyone
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 12:49 PM
Sep 2018

It happened during a party, so there people were around. If she disappears for a while and then is next seen visibly upset or acting upset in the days afterward, the other girls can put 2 and 2 together.

Add to that the probability of Kavanaugh and his buddy boasting to their buddies about getting some action, where Ford's classmates can overhear them, and that's another "2" to add.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. That's just how tricksy women are
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 12:54 PM
Sep 2018

Clearly Dr. Ford is part of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood of the Time Traveling Pants, a sinister cabal of women who routinely go back in time to embarrass good men when those men are about to realize the pinnacles of their careers.

I'm surprised Alex Jones and Fox haven't picked up on this. Yet.

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
7. I believe at least a few of them have
Wed Sep 19, 2018, 01:07 PM
Sep 2018

already seen that bandied about on Twitter, which is why I wanted to make sure of the wording when I do respond.

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