Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, told senators Thursday that she does not remember the specific location of the house where the assault took place during questioning about the geographical details about the incident.
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Ford also told Rachel Mitchell, a sex crimes prosecutor from Arizona who asked questions on behalf of Republicans, that it’s likely someone drove her either to the party or back home. But Ford told the committee no one has so far come forward to say they were the person who drove her home.
Mitchell estimated it was a six-mile walk from the house where the party occurred to Ford’s childhood home.
Despite those lapses, Democrats said Ford’s statement was believable and said sexual assault victims don’t ever have perfect memory of the incident.
Mitchell also pressed Ford on the timing of when the alleged incident with Kavanaugh took place, noting she told different entities, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and the Washington Post, different time frames for when the alleged assault occurred.
Ford replied that she “can’t give the exact date and would like to be more helpful” about the date of the incident in 1982.
Ford first shared the details of her sexual assault during couples therapy with her husband, and said she recalled summarizing those records, which included a description of the alleged incident, to the Washington Post.
Kavanaugh’s name was not listed in those notes, she said, and the therapist also erroneously noted that there were four boys in the room.
Ford has said that Kavanaugh and his classmate, Mark Judge, shoved her in a bedroom during a gathering in college in the summer of 1982. Kavanaugh, she said, pinned her to a bed, groped her, and tried to take off her clothing.
Kavanaugh has categorically denied the allegation, and will testify later in the day before the committee.
Ford named three others who she said were in attendance at the gathering where the assault took place — Judge, Patrick Smyth, and Leland Keyser. Ford said there was also a fourth person there whose identity she cannot remember.
Judge, Smyth, and Keyser have said they have no recollection of the gathering Ford describes, and Keyser said she has never met Kavanaugh.
