But the victim has stepped forward to describe the assault. The candidate, Jeff Perry, was a police sergeant in charge of the officer who conducted the illegal search and was just 15 feet away when it happened. Now he's pretending Democrats are making a big deal over something that didn't happen--er, scratch that. Make it "couldn't have done anything about."
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/22/strip-search-talk-roils-massachusetts-race/...
Mr. Perry is running against William R. Keating, a Democrat and the Norfolk County district attorney, for the seat being vacated by Representative William D. Delahunt, who is retiring. The vacancy and this year’s victory by Senator Scott Brown gave Republicans hope that they might claim at least one Democratic seat in Massachusetts this year. But the revival of the strip-search incident has complicated that effort.
Lisa Allen, the victim of the search who now lives in the district Mr. Perry seeks to represent, said on Tuesday that she could not stomach the thought that Mr. Perry might represent her in Congress.
“Perry knew what Flanagan did, he had to hear me screaming and crying,” Ms. Allen said through her lawyer in a statement to The Boston Globe. “Instead of helping me, Jeff Perry denied anything happened.’’
Mr. Perry was approximately 15 feet away when Mr. Flanagan ordered Ms. Allen, then 14 years old, to lift her bra and unbutton her pants as he searched her for marijuana, according to a police investigation of the incident and a transcript of Mr. Flanagan’s guilty plea. In a deposition for civil suits filed by the two victims’ families, Mr. Perry said he was in a position to have seen and heard everything and that it did not happen, The Boston Globe reported.
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