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TexasTowelie

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Sun Jan 21, 2018, 01:29 AM Jan 2018

New Jersey's new first lady says she was victim of sexual violence

MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey's new first lady says she was a victim of sexual violence while attending college.

Tammy Murphy told her story Saturday while speaking at a Women's march rally in Morristown. She had been introduced there by her husband, Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy, was sworn into office Tuesday.

Tammy Murphy said the attack occurred while she was a sophomore at the University of Virginia. Murphy said she was walking along a path when a man grabbed her and pulled her into the bushes.

The man tried to take her clothes off and attempted to put a crab apple in her mouth to silence her. But she bit his hand and fled half-dressed to a nearby fraternity house where students called police,

Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation/20180120_ap_884e703be86f4f77b04eb15e9dfe0187.html

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