By REBECCA BOONE
Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho (AP) â An Idaho legislative ethics committee has ordered a 19-year-old intern who says she was raped by a lawmaker to publicly testify about the encounter on Wednesday, the teen s representatives say.
The teen s attorney, Annie Hightower with the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence, decried the move by the House Ethics and Policy Committee.
âWe learned late last night that the committee will compel her testimony via a subpoena,â Hightower said Tuesday. âWe believe it should be her choice on whether to relive very traumatic events in a public form. Our client deserved better, and now she deserves accountability and the full respect and support of the public.â
Idaho lawmaker, 38, pleads the Fifth over allegations he raped 19-year-old legislative intern in his apartment
Lewiston Republican Rep Aaron von Ehlinger, 38, pleaded the Fifth Amendment on Wednesday and was told not to answer questions about rape claims
He is facing rape allegations from a 19-year-old legislative intern who claimed he forced her to have oral sex at his apartment after they had dinner at a restaurant
On Wednesday, when he was asked about what happened at his apartment during an ethics committee hearing, his attorney told him not to answer I am instructing him not to answer these questions based on his Fifth Amendment rights, his attorney Edward Dindinger said
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