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   > Of course he's a rapist.  He's black and a Democrat.   
      
   ALBANY — State Sen. Kevin Parker has been accused of sexual assault for an   
   incident that allegedly occurred nearly 20 years ago in a woman’s Brooklyn   
   apartment, two years after he was elected to public office.   
      
   The allegations against Parker, a longtime Brooklyn Democrat who chairs   
   the influential Committee on Energy and Telecommunications, are detailed   
   in a lawsuit filed late last week in state Supreme Court.   
      
   The complaint does not say how Parker came into contact with the Brooklyn   
   woman now accusing him of a violent sexual assault. She alleges that she   
   had been coordinating with Parker’s office to deliver donations and other   
   supplies as part of a relief effort following torrential flooding in Haiti   
   in 2004. The Times Union generally does not identify alleged victims of   
   sexual assault or other forms of gender abuse without their consent.   
      
   Parker’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.   
      
   The lawsuit alleges that the woman traveled to Haiti to deliver the   
   supplies and after her return, Parker asked to come to her apartment to   
   view photographs from the trip. After he had been there for a few minutes,   
   Parker allegedly grabbed both of her wrists, took her down the hallway to   
   her bedroom and raped her, the complaint states.   
      
   The woman said she has suffered psychological, physical and emotional harm   
   as a result on the alleged incident, including acute anxiety and panic   
   attacks.   
      
   In a statement, Mike Murphy, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader   
   Andrea-Stewart Cousins, said their office is reviewing the allegations.   
      
   “These allegations are extremely disturbing and we take them very   
   seriously and we will continue to monitor this situation and we will take   
   appropriate action as more information is learned,” Murphy said.   
      
   Parker has not been a stranger to controversy during his time in the   
   Senate, though he has not previously been publicly accused of sexual   
   assault.   
      
   In 2019, media reports emerged of a shouting match between Parker — known   
   to have a hot temper — and former state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, a freshman   
   Democrat at the time.   
      
   In a thread on the social media platform X on Monday, Biaggi said the rape   
   allegations should be taken seriously and called for Parker to be stripped   
   of his committee chairmanship. She also referenced the 2019 disagreement   
   and said during the incident, Parker “threatened (her) with physical   
   violence,” adding that Parker had to be restrained because “his anger and   
   aggression were out of control.”   
      
   “When reporting of this happened, at least (five) other women reached out   
   to tell me they had been harassed or threatened with physical assault by   
   Parker too, and that no one did a single thing,” Biaggi wrote in the post.   
      
   In 2018, Parker, responding to a tweet from a Senate Republican staffer   
   criticizing the misuse of a parking pass, told the staffer to “kill   
   yourself” on social media.   
      
   And in 2009, Parker was arrested after confronting and engaging in a   
   physical altercation with a photographer for the New York Post, leaving   
   the photographer with slight injuries. Parker was charged with felony   
   assault and misdemeanor charges; a jury convicted him of the misdemeanor   
   counts but cleared him of felony charges. He was later ordered to take   
   anger management classes as a result of the incident.   
      
   The lawsuit accusing him of rape was filed last week in Brooklyn under the   
   Adult Survivors Act, which lifted New York’s statute of limitations for   
   one year to allow alleged victim of sexual assault, and who were adults   
   when an assault occurred, to file civil complaints against their accused   
   abusers. That one-year period ends Friday and the deadline has prompted a   
   flurry of recent court filings under the statute.   
      
   Most allegations have targeted large institutions like medical systems or   
   the state’s prison system. Some have also taken aim at high-profile   
   individuals for alleged incidents of violent sexual assaults.   
      
   https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/longtime-brooklyn-democrat-   
   accused-2004-rape-new-18503549.php   
      
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