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It really upset me that he just went back to work like it was nothing like they hadn t laid out all those charges. So I went and read the entire criminal complaint, and as a mom and a grandma, I thought, What if that had been one of our girls? said Elizabeth Owen of Strong Women of Bradford County.
In addition to the petition, members of the organization called the Strong Women of Bradford County penned a letter to local newspapers calling on Salsman to resign. Every day that he spends in office makes a mockery of the women that have accused him of these crimes, the women who potentially were victimized by him who haven t come forward, women who have experienced the same thing at someone else s hand and the people of Bradford County in general, Mandy Wakely, another member of the group.
District Attorney Charged in Sexual Assaults on Former Clients
Chad Salsman, the elected prosecutor of Bradford County, Pa., was accused of preying on female clients who were in vulnerable legal or personal situations while he was their defense lawyer.
Chad Salsman, the district attorney of Bradford County, Pa., being escorted into court in Towanda, Pa., on Wednesday.Credit.Brianne Ostrander/The Daily Review, via Associated Press
Feb. 7, 2021
The women were targeted because they needed help with child custody cases or criminal charges, prosecutors said. Some had struggled with drug use or were survivors of sexual abuse.
But once Chad M. Salsman had guided the women into his private law office, ostensibly to discuss their cases, he forced them onto his desk and sexually assaulted them, prosecutors said. He then told the women not to tell anyone what had happened.
A Pennsylvania district attorney vowed Friday to remain in office while he fights sexual assault charges, maintaining his innocence and complaining that he was handcuffed and “paraded in front of television cameras” by the state attorney general.