Bernadette Greene-Placentia says she was raped in the middle of the night in August in Arizona
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- Bernadette Greene-Placentia is a Democratic candidate for Arizona’s Congressional District 8
- A former long-haul trucker who started her own business, Greene-Placentia says she was knocked unconscious and awoke to find a man sexually assaulting her
- She alleges a second man approached and began pushing her legs apart, but she fought him off
Content warning: The following article contains a disturbing description of an alleged sexual assault.
An Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped in a parking lot in the middle of the night over the summer while trying to repair a damaged campaign sign.
Bernadette Greene-Placentia, a Democratic candidate for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District, told the Phoenix New Times that she had gone out to repair the sign, something she’d done many times before…