2026年10月10日 / 美国东部时间下午5:30 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
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美国亚利桑那州第8选区国会众议院候选人伯纳黛特·格林-普伦西亚今年夏天在维修竞选广告牌时声称自己遭强奸，此后她公开披露了这一经历。她表示，已有众多女性联系她分享自己的遭遇。
“令人动容的是，来自全球各地的数百名女性特意写信给我，讲述她们自己的故事，”格林-普伦西亚在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时说道，“我想说，其中约70%的人坦言自己从未报案，她们感谢我站在公众视野中谈论此事、发出声音，因为她们在经历同样的事情时，感觉自己无法发声。”
作为民主党人的格林-普伦西亚，将于11月在位于凤凰城郊区的亚利桑那州第8选区，与共和党籍现任众议员新人安倍·哈马德展开角逐。库克政治报告将该选区评定为稳固共和党票仓。
这起被报道的性侵事件发生在竞选活动白热化阶段，当时有关政治暴力的担忧甚嚣尘上。今年9月的一场集会上，一名武装男子冲向俄亥俄州州长候选人艾米·阿克顿；而在今年早些时候的一场市政厅活动中，一名男子冲向伊尔汗·奥马尔众议员并向其喷洒白醋。
曾长期担任长途卡车司机的格林-普伦西亚告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，“我们的竞选活动资金并不充裕”，她和自己的团队通常都是亲自张贴或维修竞选广告牌。
“我为能够亲力亲为这些事情感到自豪，因为我们是一场草根竞选活动，所以不分昼夜地维修广告牌并不稀奇，”她在谈及熬夜维修广告牌时说道。
她表示，今年8月的一个“刚过午夜”的夜晚，她正在维修一批物料时，后脑勺遭到重击。当她恢复意识时，发现自己躺在地上，“一名男子压在我身上，随后我感到下体传来剧痛”。她说那名男子“爬开了”，紧接着另一名男子对她实施了侵犯。
“那时我开始挣扎、踢打，”她说道，“他说，‘你知道的，这根本不值得。’随后他们就离开了。我不知道自己在那里躺了多久。”
格林-普伦西亚表示，她径直开车回了家，并且她相信警方拥有她驾车回家的监控录像。
马里科帕县警长办公室的一份警方报告显示，事件发生在8月14日凌晨2点至3点之间，她于8月31日报案。
马里科帕县警长办公室本周早些时候在一份声明中表示，正在对该事件展开调查，但无法进一步置评。
格林-普伦西亚表示，她在第二天就将此事告诉了丈夫和团队，但起初并不想谈论这件事。
格林-普伦西亚周五表示，她在竞选活动中讲述自己的个人经历时，意识到自己想要站出来公开此事。她说，当时她正在讲述自己的父亲在等待退伍军人事务部的医疗救治期间去世，而她在六个月后才得知母亲一直在限量使用胰岛素。
“我当时问他们，‘你们觉得还有谁会比我更努力地为大家抗争？’”格林-普伦西亚说道，“随后我脑海里浮现出一个念头：‘好吧，你一直在告诉这些选民你会为他们抗争，但那那些遭受性侵犯的女性呢？你难道不会为她们抗争吗？伯纳黛特，这简直就是伪善。’”
格林-普伦西亚的故事最早于周三在《菲尼克斯新时报》刊发。自那以后，她的对手哈马德称其为“一则令人不安的故事”，并呼吁“当局彻查这些严重指控，包括调取事发当时和地点的所有可能监控录像，以依照法律最大限度地起诉这起犯罪行为”。
格林-普伦西亚表示，她想要对那些前来找她的女性说，她理解她们正在经历的一切。
“作为女性，我们想要为所有事情承担责任，并且会自我指责，这是我们必须摆脱的社会问题，”格林-普伦西亚说道。
House candidate who reported rape on campaign trail on why she came forward: “What about all the women who are victims?”
October 10, 2026 / 5:30 PM EDT / CBS News
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In the days since U.S. House candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia publicly came forward alleging she was raped over the summer while repairing a campaign sign, she says women have been reaching out to her to share their own stories.
“The humbling thing is that so many – hundreds and hundreds of women from around the world — have taken the time to write me and tell me their own story,” Greene-Placentia told CBS News in an interview. “I would say about 70% of them have acknowledged that they never reported it, and they are thanking me for being in the public eye and talking about it and giving voice because they didn’t feel like they had a voice when they went through the same thing.”
Greene-Placentia, a Democrat, is facing freshman Republican Rep. Abe Hamadeh on the ballot in November in Arizona’s 8th District, located in the Phoenix suburbs. The district is rated as solidly Republican by Cook Political Report.
The reported sexual assault happened amid a heated campaign season, as concerns about political violence swirl. At a rally in September, an armed man lunged at Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton, and at a town hall earlier this year, a man lunged and sprayed vinegar at Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Greene-Placentia, who had been a long-haul trucker, told CBS News that “we are not a well-funded campaign,” and she and her staff were usually the ones putting up campaign signs or fixing them.
“I took pride in being able to, you know, do these things myself because we are a grassroots campaign, so it wasn’t unusual,” she said of fixing signs at all hours.
She said that a “little after midnight” one night in August, she was repairing some supplies when she was hit on the back of the head. When she regained consciousness, she said she realized she was on the ground, and a “man was on top of me, and then I felt pain down there.” She said that man “climbed off,” and then another man assaulted her.
“At that point, I remember I started, like, moving around and kicking,” she said. “He said, ‘You know, just not worth it.’ And they left. I don’t know how long I stayed there.”
Greene-Placentia said she drove straight home, and she said she believes police have footage of her driving home.
A police report from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says the incident occurred on Aug. 14 between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m., and she reported the incident on Aug. 31.
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement earlier this week that it was investigating the incident but could not comment further.
Greene-Placentia said she told her husband and staff the next day, but she didn’t want to talk about it at first.
Greene-Placentia said Friday that she realized she wanted to come forward while she was telling her own personal story on the trail. She said she was talking about how her father died while waiting to get care with the Department of Veterans Affairs and she found out six months later that her mother had been rationing her insulin.
“I was asking them, ‘Do you think anybody’s gonna fight harder than me?’” Greene-Placentia said. “And then in the back of my head, I’m like, ‘Well you’re telling these folks that you’re gonna fight for them, but what about all the women that are victims of sexual assault? Are you not gonna fight for them? That kind of makes you a hypocrite, Bernadette.’”
Greene-Placentia’s story was first published on Wednesday in the Phoenix New Times. Since then, her opponent, Hamadeh, called it a “disturbing story,” and he was calling “upon authorities to investigate these serious allegations thoroughly, including finding all possible camera footage of the time and place in order to prosecute the crime to the fullest extent of the law.”
Greene-Placentia said that she wants to tell women who come up to her that she understands what they are going through.
“As women, we want to take responsibility for everything and blame ourselves, and that is a societal problem we’ve got to get away from,” Greene-Placentia said.
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