Man Arrested in Nebraska in Alleged Assault of Former U.S. Sen. Martha McSally

Council Bluffs police stated in a press release that the 25-year-old suspect from Papillion, Nebraska, was noticed by officers in Omaha, Nebraska, at 3:23 a.m. and arrested. Police stated the person shall be extradited again to Council Bluffs.

“A person got here up behind me and he engulfed me in a bear hug and he molested and fondled me till I fought him off,” she stated. “I then chased him down. I stated a variety of swear phrases on this second. I used to be in a battle, flight or freeze. And I selected to battle.”

After McSally chased the person into the comb at Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park, she referred to as police. She overlooked the person and he bought away, however police stated video surveillance and different investigative work led them to the suspect.

The primary lady to fly a fighter aircraft in fight stated within the video that she was OK, however that the assault “tapped right into a nerve of different sexual abuse and assault that I’ve been by means of up to now.”

McSally disclosed throughout a 2019 Senate listening to on sexual assault within the army that she had been raped by a superior officer within the Air Pressure. She didn’t report that assault on the time as a result of she didn’t belief the system, however she stated Wednesday: “I took my energy again. He tried to take energy from me, however I turned it on him and he was working from me as a substitute of the opposite method round.”

McSally served within the Air Pressure from 1988 till 2010 and rose to the rank of colonel earlier than getting into politics. She served two phrases within the Home earlier than narrowly dropping a bid to characterize Arizona within the Senate in opposition to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema.