“I was walking to the Capitol and to the Russell Building to go down the stairs,” she said. “It was somewhere in either the Russell or the Capitol. I’m not sure, all told. But we were in a semi-private place; it wasn’t completely private. He was, at first, talking to someone, they went away, and then he said ‘Come here,’ and then when I gave him the gym bag, it happened all in one motion almost.”
The alleged sexual assault happened seconds later.
“And he had me against the wall,” Reade continued. “And then his hands were down my skirt and up my skirt. And I was wearing–I wasn’t wearing anything underneath. And then, with his hand, he went from there and entered me–with his hand–and as he was trying to kiss me, and saying things to me.”
“Everything kind of happened at once but there were incremental parts to it,” she added during her Rising interview.
Reade then described the alleged immediate aftermath: