Civil rights icon Cesar Chavez abused girls and women, according to explosive new allegations
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The late Cesar Chavez, one of the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders, has been accused of sexually abusing girls and women.
The late Cesar Chavez, one of the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders, has been accused of sexually abusing girls and women.
Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta said in a statement that Chavez, her co-founder of what became the United Farm Workers, manipulated and pressured her into sex once and, in a second encounter, forced her “against my will” to have sex.
“The first time I was manipulated and pressured into having sex with him, and I didn’t feel I could say no because he was someone that I admired, my boss and the leader of the movement I had already devoted years of my life to,” Huerta said in a statement published online. “The second time I was forced, against my will, and in an environment where I felt trapped.”
Huerta first revealed her allegations of the sexual assault to the New York Times, which published an investigation Wednesday of allegations by her and two other women, who said they were 13 and 15 when Chavez first sexually molested them.
The newspaper said it relied on interviews with more than 60 people, including former top aides, relatives and former members of the United Farm Workers. It also combed union records, confidential emails, photographs and recordings of U.F.W. board meetings.
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