Sixth Woman Comes Forward To Accuse George HW Bush Of Groping

A sixth woman came forward this week with allegations against former President George H.W. Bush. In a new interview published by Time Monday, a woman said Bush groped her when she was 16-years-old.

The woman, Roslyn Corrigan, alleged that Bush groped her buttocks at an event in November 2003 in The Woodlands, Texas, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) office. Corrigan’s father was a CIA officer and her family was at an event to meet Bush. The alleged groping occurred while a photograph was being taken, Corrigan said. Bush was 79 at the time.

“My initial reaction was absolute horror. I was really, really confused,” Corrigan told Time. “The first thing I did was look at my mom and, while he was still standing there, I didn’t say anything. What does a teenager say to the ex-president of the United States? Like, ‘Hey dude, you shouldn’t have touched me like that?’”

Five other women have made similar allegations, which began surfacing last month, against the former president. The women alleged that Bush had gabbed them on the rear during photos. The claims prompted a statement from a spokesperson for the family.

“At age 93, President Bush has been confined to a wheelchair for roughly five years, so his arm falls on the lower waist of people with whom he takes pictures,” said the October statement. “To try to put people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke — and on occasion, he has patted women's rears in what he intended to be a good-natured joke.”

Corrigan heard Bush’s other allegations being discussed on a podcast and didn’t agree with the defenses people had for him.

“When I heard that was the reason, like, ‘Oh, he’s just an old man and he doesn’t know any better and he’s just being harmless and playful and it’s just where his arm falls… I just burst into uncontrollable sobbing,” said Corrigan. “I just couldn’t sit with that. I can’t. I cannot sit with that. I can’t sleep anymore, because that’s not true, and it’s not an excuse.”

Bush is standing in the photo in question.

“As soon as the picture was being snapped on the one-two-three he dropped his hands from my waist down to my buttocks and gave it a nice, ripe squeeze, which would account for the fact that in the photograph my mouth is hanging wide open,” said Corrigan. “I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, what just happened?'”