之后,众议员安吉·克雷格的身体伤势相对较快地痊愈了二月份在她公寓大楼里的一次袭击-但她在一份新的受害者影响声明中表示,她的“精神和情绪”恢复需要“更长的时间”,并且正在努力应对持续的安全问题。
她的言论是由检察官在周二提交的肯德里德·哈姆林的判决在华盛顿的联邦法院。6月,他承认犯有伤害罪。
ABC新闻此前获得的一份警方报告称,当克雷格看到一名男子在她的大楼里行为异常时,争吵开始了,好像“他受到了一种未知物质的影响。”
克雷格说,根据警方报告,她对这名男子哈姆林说“早上好”。她走到他跟着她的电梯,然后开始在电梯里做俯卧撑。
在她本周的受害者影响陈述中,克雷格详细描述了那天发生的事情。
“虽然这个案件因为我是国会议员而受到了很多关注,但那天早上我只是一个被一名男子跟踪进电梯并在那里受到攻击的女人,”明尼苏达州民主党人克雷格在她的声明中写道。
她回忆起哈姆林如何“把我困在里面”
“他掐住我的脖子,把我往钢墙上撞。他打了我的脸。当门打开时,他试图把我拉回来,我尖叫着求救,”她写道。
根据警方的报告,在袭击过程中,克雷格将热咖啡倒在哈姆林身上,击退了他,但他在警察逮捕他之前逃脱了。
2023年11月9日,众议员Angie Craig在金融服务法案被取消后离开美国国会大厦。
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克雷格在她的受害者影响声明中写道:“身体上,袭击给我的嘴唇留下了瘀伤和伤口,以及几天的疼痛和不适。”。
“虽然我的身体恢复了几天,但我的精神和情绪恢复花了更长的时间,而且还在继续。我的安全感受到了严重影响,”她写道。
克雷格在袭击后留下了“周期性焦虑”,这比他如何伤害她有“明显更广泛的后果”,她写道。
她写道,一家媒体公开了她的公寓地址,出于安全考虑,迫使她解除了租约。“在媒体人物对我的攻击发表评论后,我收到了对我和我的工作人员的一系列额外的有针对性的身体暴力和死亡威胁。”
她的妻子和他们的四个儿子也受到了惊吓。
虽然她感到“非常幸运”躲过了哈姆林的攻击而没有受到更大的伤害,但她写道,她想突出它确实造成的痛苦。
她还写道,她希望哈姆林在监禁期间能够得到心理健康和戒毒治疗。“在那之前,考虑到他以前的定罪史和我自己的经历,我相信他会继续对其他人构成进一步的威胁,”她写道。
哈姆林的律师没有回应ABC新闻的置评请求。
Congresswoman said she faced death threats after being attacked in her DC apartment
Rep. Angie Craig's physical injuries healed relatively quickly aftera February assault in her apartment building-- but her "mental and emotional" recovery has taken "much longer" and is ongoing while she grapples with continued safety concerns, she said in a new victim impact statement.
Her remarks were filed by prosecutors on Tuesday ahead ofKendrid Hamlin's sentencingin federal court in Washington. In June, he pleaded guilty to assault.
A police report previously obtained by ABC News stated the altercation began when Craig saw a man acting erratically in her building, as if "he was under the influence on an unknown substance."
Craig said she told the man -- Hamlin -- "good morning," according to the police report. She went to the elevator where he followed her, then started to do push-ups in the elevator.
In her victim impact statement this week, Craig detailed what happened that day.
"While this case has received much attention because I am a Member of Congress, that morning I was simply a woman followed into an elevator by a man and assaulted there," Craig, a Minnesota Democrat, wrote in her statement.
She recalled how Hamlin "trapped me inside."
"He grabbed my neck and slammed me into the steel wall. He punched me in the face. He attempted to pull me back as the doors opened, and I screamed for help," she wrote.
During the attack, Craig fended Hamlin off by pouring hot coffee on him, but he escaped before officers could arrest him, according to the police report.
"Physically, the attack left bruising and a cut to my lip, as well as several days of soreness and discomfort," Craig wrote in her victim impact statement.
"While my physical recovery was days, my mental and emotional recovery has taken much longer and is ongoing. My sense of safety and security has been significantly impacted," she wrote.
Craig was left with "periodic anxiety" in the aftermath of the attack, which had "significantly broader consequences" than how he injured her, she wrote.
A media outlet disclosed the address of her apartment, forcing her to break her lease because of security concerns, she wrote. And "following comments by media personalities about my assault, I received a flurry of additional targeted physical violence and death threats to myself and my staff."
Her wife and their four sons had been shaken, too.
Though she felt "very fortunate" to have escaped Hamlin's assault without greater harm, she wrote that she wanted to highlight the suffering it did cause.
She also wrote that she hoped Hamlin can get mental health and addiction treatment while he is incarcerated. "Until that occurs, given his history of previous convictions and my own experience, I believe he would continue to be a further threat to others," she wrote.
A lawyer for Hamlin did not respond to ABC News' request for comment.