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Missouri woman accuses fellow Legislature candidate of rape

Oct 1, 2016 | 10:45 AM

ST. LOUIS — A woman running for a seat in the Missouri Legislature has accused a fellow Democratic candidate of raping her.

Cora Faith Walker told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2dztzc5 ) that the attack happened the night of Aug. 26 or early the next morning when she went to meet Steven Roberts Jr. at a St. Louis apartment to discuss how they might work together in the upcoming legislative session. Both are running unopposed.

Walker, a Ferguson lawyer, says she had two glasses of wine and remembers nothing after the second glass, and that she woke up in a bed there the next morning.

She says she told her husband what had happened the next day, but it was several weeks before they went to the police.