A woman from Seattle was watching the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on sexual assault charges against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and decided that she had been silent long enough about being raped 11 years ago. 35-year-old Candace Faber made the allegation on Twitter asking: "Is anyone else just fed up and ready to name names? Because I am!"
Before naming her alleged rapist, Faber explained why she waited for 11 years to publically come forward with her claim.
If it’s bad that Blasey Ford waited to raise this until Kavanaugh got to the highest levels of government, then maybe the rest of us shouldn’t sit on our secrets just crossing our fingers that they won’t come into more power.
Faber then accused Washington state Republican Senator Joe Fain of raping her on the night that she graduated from Georgetown University.
So okay, let’s do it. @senatorfain, you raped me the night I graduated from Georgetown in 2007. Then you had the audacity to ask me to support your campaign. I’ve been terrified of running into you since moving home and seeing your name everywhere. I’m done being silent.
Faber had documented her claims in a blog post in June but did not name Fain in the account, according to the Seattle Times.
In that earlier account, Faber described how she and the man met “at the Capitol” and spent a night out drinking and kissing. She wrote that she helped the drunken man return to his hotel room. In the room, she wrote, he pulled down her dress “so hard the straps tore.”
She pushed him away and said “stop, stop, stop” before eventually relenting, when he raped her, she wrote. She later asked him for a kiss goodbye, she wrote, and wondered whether she should go to the hospital.
Fain denied the allegations in a text message to the newspaper.
“I absolutely deny what Ms. Faber is accusing me of,” Fain said. “Any allegation of this serious nature deserves to be heard and investigated for all parties involved. I invite and will cooperate with any inquiry. I ask everyone to show respect to Ms. Faber and to the process.”