After successfully defending an accused child rapist in 1975, Hillary Clinton joked in an interview the accused rapist’s ability to pass a polygraph test had “forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs.”
The victim from that case, Kathy Shelton, now 54, recently broke her silence in an interview with the Daily Mail, and says she will never forgive Hillary for defending her rapist and impugning her character in court four decades ago.
Clinton informed the court in an affidavit that the victim was “emotionally unstable” and had a “tendency to seek out older men and engage in fantasizing.”
Shelton said she can’t stand to see Hillary present herself as an advocate for women and girls, given the candidate’s involvement in her rape case.
“It’s put a lot of anger back in me,” Shelton told the Daily Mail. “Every time I see [Clinton] on TV I just want to reach in there and grab her, but I can’t do that.”
Clinton’s client ultimately pleaded down to a lesser charge and served less than a year in prison after Clinton successfully sought to block the admission of DNA
“I don’t think she’s for women or girls. I think she’s lying, I think she said anything she can to get in the campaign and win,” Shelton said. “If she was [an advocate for women and children], she wouldn’t have done that to me at 12 years old.”
