Attorney for NEW Brown Accusers Speaks Out on more abuse

Jim Renacci spoke of additional accusers to Sherrod Brown Wednesday in Cincinnati. Now the lawyer for those women has issued a statement:

“I am the lawyer who Jim Renacci has referred to in the press as an attorney who handles domestic and sexual abuse cases. He did not want to disclose my name because his referral to me was for the benefit of women contacting his office and he did not believe he had a right to do so. I have received consent from one of the women to make a statement. She is a very credible source and a professional woman. This is what she disclosed to me.

“She met Sherrod Brown in the course of her work and had occasion to be briefly alone with him, but not on a date. She told a friend in confidence about her unwanted and unexpected experience in the late 80’s. This was months ago, shortly after the MeToo movement began, and the reason she told her friend was to explain why she believed many of the women, as something unwanted had happened to her with a prominent politician. She had no intention of coming forward and did not know that the friend would later contact Jim Renacci with it. When she did, he referred her to discuss the experience with me.

“This encounter happened after his divorce. She described an unexpected, uninvited, unwanted, and sudden advance, roughly pushing her up against a wall. It did stop after she expressed dismay and very firmly pulled away, explaining that was not her style nor why she was there. He then said he remembered what she had on the day they had met some time earlier and that he had been attracted to her. Although she was able to defuse the situation, it did shake her up and she told friends about it as soon as she got home. They wanted her to report it but she chose not to do so because it did stop. She has also told a few other people over the years about what a shock it was, but did not intend to ever bring it forward recently other than to let friends know this is why she believed many other women's stories about similar experiences. And also it happened a very long time ago. She is only allowing this statement because the current news coverage does not have all the facts yet, and she wants to correct the record.
 
“The woman desires to be anonymous and I will not disclose her name or any further information on her behalf.” – Laura Mills Esq., Managing Partner, Mills, Mills Fiely & Lucas

In response to the statement, Renacci issued this:

“While the extensive and well substantiated allegations and court records detailing Sherrod Brown’s long history of engaging in acts of domestic violence have already disqualified him from continuing to serve in the United States Senate, these additional allegations from a second accuser clearly raise even more questions and alarm over Sherrod Brown’s conduct towards women.”