(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 03 - The Australian Minister of Justice, Christian Porter, has revealed that he is the government representative accused of raping a sixteen year old 30 years ago, when he too was a teenager, about whom he has been writing in the media in Australia for days.
The BBC reports it.
Porter denies the allegations of violence by announcing that he will not resign because he is innocent.
The victim of the violence committed suicide last year, but his friends sent a letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison a week ago in which he accused the minister. "The facts of which I am accused never happened," Porter told the press, who admitted that he had met the woman when they were in high school and that he had participated with her in some debate competitions. According to the indictment, the violence took place during one of these tournaments at the University of Sydney in 1988. The minister who were part of the same team and had participated in some competitions together "when they were teenagers, 33 years ago". But he never found himself alone with her.
The MPs have asked to reopen the investigation that the New South Wales police had closed after the woman's death. (HANDLE).
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