ARIZONA
The Hill
BY LUIS SANCHEZ
04/23/18
Arizona Rep. Martha McSally (R) said she was sexually abused by a coach while in high school, The Wall Street Journal reported.
“It took a while for me to come to a place where I understood what the hell I had been through,” McSally told the Journal. “At the time, I was so afraid. I now understand — like many girls and boys who are abused by people in authority over them — there’s a lot of fear and manipulation and shame.”
McSally, who is running for the Senate in the upcoming midterm election, said she did not tell her family or friends about the abuse she experienced when she was 17 until a decade later. The congresswoman has spoken out in the past about being sexually harassed during her 26 years in the Air Force.
The abuse occurred during McSally’s senior year of high school at an all-girls Catholic school in Rhode Island.
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