New York Dem Accused of Raping Freshman Legislator

A New York Democrat with a checkered history has been named in a new lawsuit accusing him of raping a woman at a disaster relief meeting.

The scandal-plagued Empire State filed another sexual assault complaint in the county just before the Adult Survivors Act expired. Arriving in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Friday, Olga Jean-Baptiste accused New York state Sen. Kevin Parker (D) of raping her in his home when he was a freshman lawmaker in 2004.

According to the court filingthe then 31-year-old plaintiff “was coordinating with Senator Kevin Parker and his constituents to deliver needed items, donations and assistance to flood victims in Haiti, which he completed in 2004 by making a trip in Haiti”.

Upon her return, Parker had met her at her Brooklyn apartment for a meeting and to collect the photos she had taken during her trip. At the end of that visit, the suit alleges, he grabbed her by the wrists and led her “down the hallway of his apartment to her bedroom, made a sexual comment and placed her face down on the bed,” before who allegedly violated her.

“The plaintiff was frozen in fear and was unable to cry out,” court documents stated.

first reported per amNY, a statement from Mike Murphy, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, said: “These allegations are extremely disturbing and we take them very seriously. And we will continue to monitor this situation and take appropriate action in as more information is learned.”

The latest complaint fell within the closing “retroactive window” of the Adult Survivors Act that temporarily suspended the statute of limitations to allow those who, through trauma, fear or other concerns, had lost the opportunity to present claims of abuse, It was not the only time that Parker faced accusations of improper acts.

In 2005, the then first-term senator was loaded with third-degree assault for punching a traffic officer who issued him a $55 ticket for double parking. Those charges were dropped when he agreed to attend anger management classes.

That same year he was said to have threatened a former assistant after she publicly complained that he had physically assaulted her when she was an employee. Four years later, he was slapped with a misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief for stalking one New York Post photographer and damaging his camera. A 2010 conviction landed him on three years of probation and an order to take anger management classes.

In addition, he was stripped of his committee positions and his role as majority whip.

Bob Hilliard, the attorney representing the victim, said: “Ms. Jean-Baptiste survived the unspeakable sexual abuse perpetrated by Senator Parker and continues to suffer the trauma that only survivors of unwanted sexual assault can fully understand.”

“The allegations are set out in Mrs Jean-Baptiste’s lawsuit. A jury will hear firsthand all the details and horror of what happened.”

As recently as 2019, Parker faced an ethics complaint for telling a GOP operative that “kill you” on social media, after which he was accused of getting into a shouting match with fellow senator Alessandra Biaggi.

At the time of this publication, the senator had not publicly responded to the allegations.

Staff writer

A native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College, where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and seeker of truth, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and dog, and when he’s not researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel ·the.

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