{"id":30881,"date":"2017-11-14T14:53:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T09:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30881"},"modified":"2017-11-14T14:53:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T09:53:58","slug":"woman-says-george-h-w-bush-groped-her-when-she-was-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30881","title":{"rendered":"Woman says George H.W. Bush groped her when she was 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON Nov 14 (TNS):\u00a0<\/strong>A woman has accused former US President George H.W. Bush of groping her during a photo session in 2003 when she was 16.<\/p>\n

Roslyn Corrigan said in an interview on Monday to\u00a0Time Magazine that Bush touched her from behind at a CIA event, where she accompanied her father to meet Bush. Bush was 79 then.<\/p>\n

Bush groped her buttocks while she alongside her mother posed for a photograph with the former president, she said.<\/p>\n

“As soon as the picture was being snapped, on the one-two-three he dropped his hands from my waist down to my buttocks and gave it a nice, ripe squeeze, which would account for the fact that in the photograph my mouth is hanging wide open,” Corrigan told Time, her first public interview about the incident. “I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, what just happened?'”<\/p>\n

“My initial reaction was absolute horror. I was really, really confused,” Corrigan said. “The first thing I did was look at my mom and, while he was still standing there, I didn’t say anything. What does a teenager say to the ex-president of the United States? Like, ‘Hey dude, you shouldn’t have touched me like that?'”<\/p>\n

She said that many people continue to doubt and dismiss her account but that she felt encouraged to speak out seeing other women come forward.<\/p>\n

She told her mother right away about the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he left, my daughter Rozi said, \u2018He grabbed me on the rear end.\u2019 And I said, \u2018What, what?’\u201d Sari said. \u201cAnd she said, \u2018Yes, he grabbed me when they were taking the picture. He grabbed me on my butt.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Oh my god, are you kidding me?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really, really upset \u2014 she was very upset, she was really, really mad,\u201d she added. Sari said she would have tried to take action \u201chad it been just some Joe Blow or something. I\u2019d probably chase him down and yell at him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, you know, it\u2019s the president. What are you supposed to do?\u201d she said in an Oct. 28 interview. \u201cAnd you\u2019ve got your husband\u2019s job that could be in jeopardy. I mean, you just didn\u2019t then. You should\u2014you should have always spoken up, always\u2014but we didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Corrigan is the sixth woman to accuse Bush of inappropriate behaviour.<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON Nov 14 (TNS):\u00a0A woman has accused former US President George H.W. Bush of groping her during a photo session in 2003 when she was 16. Roslyn Corrigan said in an interview on Monday to\u00a0Time Magazine that Bush touched her from behind at a CIA event, where she accompanied her father to meet Bush. Bush […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,303],"tags":[304,733],"class_list":["post-30881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-washington","tag-washington","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30884,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30881\/revisions\/30884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}