Judge Harassed Woman For Years

Here in Houston, it was reported recently how a district judge had been sexually harassing a woman for years:

Family and friends of a federal court employee whose sexual misconduct complaint led to the suspension of U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent told a newspaper that Kent repeatedly harassed the woman over four years, including allegations of improper touching.

Those include the alleged assault in March that began an investigation ending with the September reprimand against Kent by a federal panel, a rare disciplinary action against a federal judge.

The reprimand by the Judicial Council of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals includes no details of the complaint. But in a story published Sunday by the Houston Chronicle, people close to the alleged victim described in detail the alleged groping in an office room.

It probably took her a long time to convince someone that this was happening. People tend to look at a person's position and then reaching an erroneous conclusion that since that person holds a certain position, they could not possibly be guilty of what they have been accused of.