Shocking Twist: 4 Women Drop Lawsuit Against Former Indiana AG Curtis Hill Over Groping Allegations
Hours before jury selection started on Monday, four women who claimed that Curtis Hill, the former attorney general of Indiana, had drunkenly groped them at a club withdrew their civil action against him. Before bringing this final complaint in a Marion County court in 2020, the women filed an initial action in federal court in 2019. They claimed that Hill had beaten them at a bar in Indianapolis and then repeatedly falsely accused them of being defamatory. According to The Indianapolis Star, their decision to abandon the lawsuit on Sunday puts an end to nearly seven years of inquiries and legal proceedings about Hill’s behavior at a party in March 2018 on the last night of that year’s legislative session.
After coming to “the frustrating conclusion that proceeding with the trial cannot provide the relief they sought; namely, Mr. Hill accepting responsibility for his actions and admitting his fault in intentionally touching each of them in a sexual manner without consent,” the women decided to have the lawsuit dismissed, according to a statement from their lawyers. Niki DaSilva, Samantha Lozano, Gabrielle McLemore Brock, and Mara Candelaria Reardon are the four women who filed the lawsuit against Hill. The three ladies were legislative workers, and Candelaria Reardon was a Democratic state lawmaker from Munster, northwest Indiana, at the time of the March 2018 party. All made the decision to publicly confront his denials.
Hill said in a statement on Monday that the case’s dismissal validates his long-standing rejection of the women’s allegations. “There was no monetary settlement reached. “There were no terms for termination,” Hill stated. “This journey of baseless accusations that have plagued me for almost seven years and been the source of political and personal attacks against me came to an end when the case against me was dismissed with prejudice by each of the plaintiffs.”
In 2020, despite Hill’s denials, the Indiana Supreme Court suspended his legal license for 30 days after concluding that he had “by clear and convincing evidence committed the criminal act of battery” against a state senator and three female legislative staffers during the party. After nine partygoers testified at his hearing on professional misconduct, the justices made their decision. When Hill narrowly lost the 2020 Republican nomination for attorney general for reelection to Todd Rokita, who assumed office in January 2021, the accusations became a major campaign topic.
In 2022, Hill made an attempt to return to politics, but he failed to obtain a vote from Republican members of the precinct committee to replace U.S. Representative Jackie Walorski on the ballot after she died in a car accident. Rudy Yakym, a businessman, was elected to the 2nd District seat in northern Indiana after winning the GOP nomination. In addition, Hill entered the six-way Republican primary for governor of Indiana this year in an attempt to unseat GOP Governor Eric Holcomb, who is term-limited. However, Mike Braun, a first-term U.S. Senator, won the May primary.
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