Kathy Shelton's name was brought up many times prior to Sunday night's second presidential debate, and here's why: in 1975, Shelton was a 12-year-old girl who had just accused factory worker Thomas Alfred Taylor of rape [1]. Taylor was 41 and was being represented in court by Hillary Clinton (then, Hillary Rodham), who was a young law professor representing defendants who could not afford a lawyer. Although Clinton tried to get off of the case, she represented her client, and the charges against Taylor were changed from first-degree rape [2] to "Unlawful Fondling of a Child Under the Age of Fourteen." Clinton has touched on this in the past, but it wasn't until Donald Trump [3] brought Shelton into the news surrounding the presidential debate that she became a subject of the 2016 election.
Before the debate, Trump held a press conference with now 54-year-old Kathy Shelton, alongside three women who have accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault in the past. After the shocking video of Donald Trump surfaced [4] on Oct. 7, it appears he is trying to fire back and test Clinton.
Watch the video below.
