Congress begins impeachment of Judge Kent

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Source: Houston Chronicle


By STEWART M. POWELL

WASHINGTON — In some of the most graphic public testimony they have offered — and in the halls of Congress where they hope to see their former boss impeached — two federal employees Wednesday recounted years of courthouse assaults and unwanted sexual encounters at the hands of a United States judge.

For years, Cathy McBroom and Donna Wilkerson stayed silent as an often intoxicated U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent cornered them to inflict unwanted kissing, groping and occasionally furtive sexual touching, they said.

Members of the House Judiciary Committee sat glued to vivid, sometimes emotional testimony from the two victims, who eventually braved potential risks to their jobs and reputations to come forward with the truth in Texas and now before Congress.

On Wednesday, Congress started fast-track impeachment proceedings against Kent, galvanized by his bid to keep a $174,000 annual paycheck in prison and his predatory behavior toward his female employees.



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