If the charges against former Speaker of the House Rod Jetton are true, he not only physically and sexually abused an unwilling woman, but it was a woman who had been sexually abused in her childhood, according to testimony in today's preliminary hearing:
Both Jetton and the alleged victim are recently divorced. Late last year, the woman said she decided to reconnect with old friends on the social Web site Facebook. She said she was sexually abused as a child and had dialogue with Jetton about that. The dialogue grew into an online friendship.
The woman said that because she sometimes has flashbacks of her sexual abuse, she and Jetton agreed to a “safe word” she could use if she was having a flashback and wanted the sex to stop: green balloons.
“I said ’balloons’ and he said ’green balloons’ because green was his favorite color,” she said.
The woman testified that Jetton showed up at her home Nov. 15 with two bottles of wine. They watched a football game on TV and she said she became groggy from the wine, though she wouldn’t say if she believed Jetton spiked the drink.
The rest of her testimony included a violent sexual encounter with Jetton, who was bound over for trial. His next hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, March 10, in Scott County Circuit Court.
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