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Title IX Lawyer: 'Gut Says Ford Was Assaulted, But Not by Kavanaugh'

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John Gizzi By Wednesday, 19 September 2018 04:36 PM EDT Current | Bio | Archive

An attorney who specializes in cases of sexual assault among college students told Newsmax she believes Professor Christine Blasey Ford did experience the assault of which she has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

However, Lynchburg, Virginia, attorney Margaret Valois, whose speciality is Title IX (the law guaranteeing equality between males and females) violations, also believes Ford's charge against Kavanaugh might easily be a case of mistaken identity. 

"I have no doubt [the assault] happened — something happened to her in 1980," Valois told us. "These are terrible situations and not unlike situations I deal with now among college students. But given all the testimony to Judge Kavanaugh's character as a young student and today, I have doubts that he was the one who assaulted her."

Thus, Valois concluded, Ford might well be naming the wrong person in pointing a finger at the former Bush White House official and U.S. Court of Appeals judge on the eve of the Senate Judiciary Committee's vote on his nomination to the Supreme Court.

"My gut says Professor Ford was assaulted when she was 15, but not by Kavanaugh," Valois said. "She made a claim and deserves to be heard," she said, adding she felt the hearings were "a good thing."

But Valois also pointed out she felt the statements of exemplary character – by people who are well-acquainted with Kavanaugh from his days at Georgetown Prep and Yale University to his stint in the White House – "certainly count for something."

"Each needs to have an opportunity to be heard," Valois said. (Newsmax spoke to her before Ford's lawyer announced that she would not testify until the FBI reopened the background check on Kavanaugh and investigated her charge. Kavanaugh is scheduled to testify before the Judiciary Committee on Monday).

Of her work on cases involving alleged assault by college students, Valois said "it is so easy to throw out accusations and ruin someone's [life]. In fact, some young women even say 'I'll Title 9 you!' when they threaten to file a claim against a young man."

John Gizzi is chief political columnist and White House correspondent for Newsmax. For more of his reports, Go Here Now.

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Professor Christine Blasey Ford did experience the assault of which she has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, according a Title IX gender equity attorney, who added her "gut says Ford was assaulted, but not by Kavanaugh."
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