A Louisiana doctor on Monday backed his former girlfriend’s claims that Republican presidential contender Herman Cain touched her inappropriately when she sought his career advice in 1997, hoping to bolster allegations that Cain has vehemently denied. “She was upset,” pediatrician Victor Jay Zuckerman said of then-girlfriend Sharon Bialek, who met Cain in Washington, where he was head of the National Restaurant Association. “She said that something had happened and that Mr. Cain had touched her in an inappropriate manner.”
Bialek last week accused Cain of reaching up her skirt and trying to pull her head toward his crotch when she sought his help in finding a job, after Bialek was let go from the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation. Zuckerman said he had encouraged Bialek to meet with Cain, with whom the couple had spent time at an association event in Chicago.
