Another Woman Accuses George H.W. Bush Of Groping
HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Another woman has stepped forward to accuse former President George H.W. Bush of inappropriately touching her.
Roslyn Corrigan told Time magazine that she was 16 when Bush grabbed her buttocks as she posed for a photo with him in 2003 at a gathering of CIA officers north of Houston. She attended the event with her mother and father, who was an intelligence analyst.
"My initial action was absolute horror. I was really, really confused," she told the magazine. "The first thing I did was look at my mom and, while he was still standing there, I didn't say anything. What does a teenager say to the ex-president of the United States? Like, 'Hey dude, you shouldn't have touched me like that?'"
A spokesman for the 41st president, Jim McGrath, said in a statement Monday that Bush regrets any offensive actions.
"George Bush simply does not have it in his heart to knowingly cause anyone distress, and he again apologizes to anyone he offended during a photo op," he said.
Time spoke with seven people who said they had been told by Corrigan about the encounter in the years afterward.
Corrigan is at least the fifth woman to claim Bush groped her. Time reports that a sixth woman, a retired journalist in Pennsylvania, posted to Facebook last month that Bush touched her from behind during a 2004 photo opportunity.
Actress Jordana Grolnick says Bush grabbed her buttocks during a group photo last year at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine.
Actress Heather Lind has also said that the former president touched her inappropriately. In a now-deleted Instagram post Lind said it happened in 2014 while she was posing for a photo during a promotional tour for her AMC television series. She said while he was seated in a wheelchair H.W. Bush touched her from behind and told her a dirty joke.
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