Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped trying to repair campaign sign – ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped trying to repair campaign sign  ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said a report was filed on Aug. 31. A Democratic congressional candidate in Arizona says she was raped over the summer while trying to repair a campaign sign. Bernadette Greene-Placentia, who is running in the state's 8th district to try to unseat GOP Rep. Abe Hamadeh, told the Phoenix New Times, a local news outlet, that she was attacked at around 2 a.m. as she was walking toward a campaign sign in a parking lot in Sun City, north of Phoenix. Greene-Placentia said she was attacked, subdued and then woke up to find that she was being raped by an unknown assailant. Greene-Placentia told the news outlet she reported the assault to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, and that she chose to tell her story because she had been talking about fighting for Arizona residents while campaigning "and I didn't feel like I could keep saying that if I weren't also fighting for women that are victims of sexual assault." The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office confirmed to ABC News that a report was filed on Aug.

31 and that there is an ongoing investigation, but said the office could not comment further on the investigation. In a statement to ABC News, a campaign spokesperson said the attack happened around 2 a.m. on Aug. 14. "Bernadette