Civil Rights attorney and Federal Judge retires after sexual assault accusation

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The chief U.S. district judge in Washington, D.C., could face a congressional investigation in connection with a sexual abuse lawsuit filed Wednesday by a Utah woman.

Richard W. Roberts, the chief U.S. district judge for Washington, D.C., submitted a letter of resignation Wednesday as news of the suit emerged, The National Law Journal and The Washington Post reported. The Post reported that he cited health reasons.

The court didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday night, and Roberts was still listed as chief judge on the court's website.

In the suit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, the woman, Terry Mitchell, seeks a jury trial on her claims that Roberts raped her repeatedly in 1981 when she was a witness in the trial of Joseph Paul Franklin, the white supremacist serial killer who shot Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt.

In a statement to The Post, Roberts' attorneys called the allegations "categorically false" — but they acknowledged that the judge, who was 27 and unmarried at the time, did have a "relationship" with the woman some time later.

"Roberts acknowledges that the relationship was indeed a bad lapse in judgment," the statement said. "However, the relationship did not occur until after the trial and had no bearing on the outcome of that trial."

According to the suit, Mitchell was already the victim of sexual assault by several other men, including her step-grandfather, and in his role as a prosecutor, Roberts had access to her mental counseling records.

The suit claims that Roberts used that access to deceive Mitchell and her parents into trusting him. After gaining their trust, he drove her to a hotel, where he forced her up to a room and raped her, the suit alleges.

Afterward, "Defendant Roberts intimidated, coerced, and manipulated Mitchell to have sexual intercourse nearly every day for several weeks," the suit alleges. It says she repressed all memory of the alleged abuse until 2013, when Roberts emailed her about a new development in the 1981 case in which she'd been a witness.

NBC station KSL of Salt Lake City reported late Wednesday that the Utah attorney general's office investigated Mitchell's claims in 2014. But because Utah's age of consent was 16 in 1981 — it's 18 now — investigators concluded that she was old enough at the time to have consented to sexual relations.

Some notable achievements:

In 1983, Chief Judge Roberts help found the Washington, D.C. chapter of Concerned Black Men, Inc. (The History Makers, 2008) The Vision of this organization is to help provide more Black male role models for children in various communities across the United States. These role models will help provide care and discipline to children while additionally providing academic and career mentoring (CBM National, n.d.).

Another source:

In a statement, Roberts's attorneys called Mitchell's claims "categorically false," but acknowledge that he did have a "relationship" with Mitchell after the trial ended. "Roberts acknowledges that the relationship was indeed a bad lapse in judgment," the statement read. "However, the relationship did not occur until after the trial and had no bearing on the outcome of that trial."

Exactly what we need, pedophiles providing "care and discipline" to children as role models. I do not expect this man to be prosecuted but he should.

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Gotta show the little white girls how "hard" it is to be black in 'Merica