Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed she was sexually assaulted

The congresswoman from New York assured that it is not possible to “go ahead without being held accountable. We cannot heal without accountability. All these people who tell us to move on are doing it for their own convenience."

Democratic US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a telematic hearing of the House Financial Services Committee, on December 2

The Democratic US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has revealed during a live intervention on her live Instagram account that she considers herself a survivor of a sexual assault.

Ocasio-Cortez, visibly moved, revealed the event she had experienced while narrating live the trauma that caused her on January 6 to contemplate the assault on the US Capitol by groups of radical supporters of Donald Trump.

“I am a survivor of a sexual assault. And I have not said that too many people in my life," she said, visibly moved.

For the congresswoman from New York, the two situations, both the sexual assault of which she was a victim and the one suffered by the Capitol, were traumatic, despite the fact that there was no relationship between the two events.

Ocasio-Cortez gave a detailed account of how the mutiny that ended in an assault on the US Legislative took place but did not go into the description of how the sexual assault of which she was a victim occurred in the past.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The congresswoman did compare the attitude of Republican legislators who do not want to judge the events that occurred in the Capitol with those who use "abusive tactics."

The reason I'm saying this and the reason I'm excited right now is that these people (Republicans) telling us to move on, that it's no big deal, that we should forget what happened, and even that We apologize, they use the same tactics as the abusers.

During his Instagram Live, he assured that he cannot “go ahead without being held accountable. We cannot heal without accountability. All these people who tell us to move on are doing it for their own convenience. "

Ocasio-Cortez described how she hid in her bathroom in her Congressional office during the chaos of the Capitol riots last month and was rescued by police.

The congresswoman was elected by the 14th district of New York City, which includes some areas of the popular neighborhoods of the Bronx and Queens, among the poorest in the city.