Roslyn Corrigan was sixteen years old when she got a chance to meet George H.W. Bush, excited to be introduced to a former president having grown up dreaming of going into politics. 
 
 But Corrigan was crushed by her encounter: Bush, then 79 years old, groped her buttocks at a November 2003 event in The Woodlands, Texas, office of the Central Intelligence Agency where Corrigan’s father gathered with fellow intelligence officers and family members to meet Bush, Corrigan said. Corrigan is the sixth woman since Oct. 24 to accuse Bush publicly of grabbing her buttocks without consent. 
 
 “My initial reaction was absolute horror. I was really, really confused,” Corrigan told TIME, speaking publicly for the first time about the encounter. “The first thing I did was look at my mom and, while he was still standing there, I didn’t say anything. What does a teenager say to the ex-president of the United States? Like, ‘Hey dude, you shouldn’t have touched me like that?’” 
 
 Roslyn Corrigan (L), former president George H.W. Bush (C) and Sari Young (R) at the November 2003 event where Corrigan says Bush groped her. Courtesy Corrigan Family 
 
 Corrigan said the incident happened while she was being photographed standing next to Bush. Five other women have made similar claims against Bush in recent weeks. Seven people, including family members and friends, confirmed to TIME that they had been told about alleged groping by Bush of Corrigan prior to the other recent allegations. 
 
 “George Bush simply does not have it in his heart to knowingly cause anyone harm or distress, and he again apologizes to anyone he may have offended during a photo op,” Bush spokesperson Jim McGrath said in a statement to TIME. Previously, McGrath said Bush “has patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner,” additionally attributing the act to his diminished height after being confined to a wheelchair since 2012. Bush was standing upright in 2003 when he met Corrigan. 
 
 Corrigan said that to this day, some of the responses she gets to her story are dismissive but she said she feels emboldened to speak out after seeing other women come forward, and hopes more will do so after hearing her account. 
 
 “I don’t know, maybe it never really hit people that I was a child at the time and that goes beyond a guy being inappropriate in the workplace to a peer or somebody in his age range,” she said. “I was a child.” 
 
 Corrigan, who had heard Bush give a speech at a conference held at the George Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University earlier in November 2003, asked her father, Steve A. Young, if she could leave early from her classes at The Woodlands High School and join him at the planned visit by Bush. After Bush addressed the CIA gathering, which included agency personnel and their family members, Corrigan had the opportunity to take a photograph with Bush, alongside her mother, Sari Young. 
 
 Ryan Trapani, a spokesperson for the CIA, declined multiple requests for comment regarding Young’s employment and Corrigan’s allegation against Bush. 
 
 “As soon as the picture was being snapped on the one-two-three he dropped his hands from my waist down to my buttocks and gave it a nice, ripe squeeze, which would account for the fact that in the photograph my mouth is hanging wide open,” Corrigan said. “I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, what just happened?'” 
 
 Roslyn Corrigan in 2017 Courtesy of the Corrigan Family 
 
 Her mother, Sari, said Corrigan told her about the encounter as soon as Bush stepped away. 
 
 “When he left, my daughter Rozi said, ‘He grabbed me on the rear end.’ And I said, ‘What, what?'” Sari said. “And she said, ‘Yes, he grabbed me when they were taking the picture. He grabbed me on my butt.’ And I was like, ‘Oh my god, are you kidding me?’ 
 
 “I was really, really upset — she was very upset, she was really, really mad,” she added. Sari said she would have tried to take action “had it been just some Joe Blow or something. I’d probably chase him down and yell at him.” 
 
 “But, you know, it’s the president. What are you supposed to do?” she said in a Oct. 28 interview. “And you’ve got your husband’s job that could be in jeopardy. I mean, you just didn’t then. You should—you should have always spoken up, always—but we didn’t.” 
 
 Within the next few days, Corrigan told her childhood friend Chelsea Wellman about the alleged groping as well, Wellman told TIME on Oct. 27. 
 
 Christopher Yarbrough, who was married to Corrigan from 2010 until their divorce the following year, said on Oct. 27 he learned about the incident about a month after they started dating in 2005. One day, the two were going through scrapbooks at Sari’s house, he said, when they flipped to a page revealing the photo with Bush. He said that Corrigan then told him about the encounter with the former president. 
 
 Tristan Voskuhl, who went to Sam Houston State University with Corrigan, said Corrigan first told her about the incident in 2006 when they were 19 years old. Bob Unseld, a family friend, said Sari first told him of the incident in 2013. “She didn’t say it just once. She told me this several times that he had done this to Rozi. It made her very mad.” Paul Weins, Unseld’s husband, also said he heard Sari’s account of the incident in 2013. 
 
 Bush, who from January 1976 to January 1977 served as the CIA’s director of Central Intelligence—the former title of the agency’s highest-ranking position—is one of a number of prominent figures to be accused of sexual assault since news of alleged past assaults committed by Harvey Weinstein broke early last month. 
 
 Actress Heather Lind was the first to openly accuse Bush of groping her while they posed for a photo during a promotional tour for her AMC series Turn: Washington’s Spies in 2013. 
 
 “He didn’t shake my hand. He touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side,” Lind wrote in a now-deleted Instagram post on Oct. 24. 
 
 On Oct. 25, New York-based actress Jordana Grolnick told Deadspin Bush groped her in August 2016 at a Maine theater where she was performing. She said that Bush came backstage with Barbara during the intermission of the play, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and gathered with the cast for a photo. 
 
 On Oct. 26, best-selling author Christina Baker Kline wrote in Slate that Bush groped her during an April 2014 photo op at a Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy fundraiser in Houston. 
 
 Amanda Staples, a former Maine Senate candidate said in a private Instagram post on Oct. 26 that Bush groped her in 2006, the Portland Press Herald reported. 
 
 Liz Allen, a retired Erie Times-News journalist, said in an Oct. 26 Facebook post that Bush touched her from behind at a local business association event while taking a photograph with the former president in Erie, Pa. in 2004. 
 
 Bush’s spokesperson, McGrath, declined a separate request from TIME to comment on Staples and Allen’s allegations, which they said occurred when the former president was standing up. 
 
 Corrigan said that Bush’s response to Lind and Grolnick’s allegations, which cited his use of a wheelchair, bothers her because the “excuse for his senile, old man antics… is not true.” 
 
 She said that recently, she was listening to an episode of a podcast hosted by Ben Shapiro called “Is Everything Sexual Assault Now?” Allegations against Bush were discussed on the show. 
 
 “When I heard that was the reason, like, ‘Oh, he’s just an old man and he doesn’t know any better and he’s just being harmless and playful and it’s just where his arm falls… I just burst into uncontrollable sobbing,” Corrigan said. “I just couldn’t sit with that. I can’t. I cannot sit with that. I can’t sleep anymore, because that’s not true, and it’s not an excuse.” 
 
 On Nov. 1, former first lady Laura Bush, wife of George W. Bush, told CNN that the alleged incidents against her father-in-law were “very innocent.” 
 
 “I’m just sad that we’ve come to this,” Laura Bush told the network. “That was something that was very, very innocent that he’s been accused of. But I know he would feel terrible.” 
 
 Corrigan said she doesn’t see it that way. 
 
 “It completely floored me. I was actually there to be taken seriously, and I wasn’t,” she said. “I thought, he’s a career politician, almost 80 years old or something like that, if anybody’s going to take me a little bit seriously or at least try to pretend he’s interested in what I have to say, it would be this guy. And he didn’t. All he did was grab my butt.” 
 
 Contact us at editors@time.com. ||||| Liz Allen alleged in a Facebook post that she was touched inappropriately by former President George H.W. Bush in 2004 when Bush was in Erie to attend a Manufacturer and Business Association event. 
 
 Liz Allen, a Democratic nominee for Erie City Council, has alleged in a Facebook post that she was touched inappropriately by former President George H.W. Bush in 2004 when Bush was in Erie to attend a Manufacturer and Business Association event. 
 
 Allen is the fourth woman to make an accusation against Bush this week. A Bush representative on Wednesday issued an apology and said that the nation's 41st president, in the past, "has patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner.” That statement was issued after an actress posted on her Instagram account that Bush had touched her "from behind" while she posed for a photo with him. 
 
 Allen, 66, said in an interview that she was not "traumatized" by the 2004 incident in Erie, and at the time she didn't feel the need to "speak up" about it. 
 
 "But I didn't like it," Allen said. "It did not rise to the level of assault, but it was in my (personal) space. 
 
 "I really hesitated," Allen said about publishing her Facebook post Thursday. "I didn't want people thinking I was jumping on some bandwagon. But I wanted people to know it happened to me." 
 
 Allen is a retired Erie Times-News journalist who is among four Democrats and one Republican seeking four open seats on City Council in the Nov. 7 municipal election. She led all candidates in vote totals in the May 16 municipal primary. 
 
 Allen on Thursday posted on her personal Facebook page a status update that started with #metoo, a hashtag that goes back a decade and which has received renewed attention since actress Alyssa Milano urged women to use it if they have been sexually harassed or assaulted in the past. 
 
 Allen's post included a link to a story about actress Heather Lind's allegation against Bush in a now-deleted Instagram post. Lind claimed that Bush touched her from behind four years ago while she posed for a photo with him. 
 
 Bush's spokesman, Jim McGrath, issued a statement to CNN on Wednesday that "President Bush would never — under any circumstance — intentionally cause anyone distress, and he most sincerely apologizes if his attempt at humor offended Ms. Lind." 
 
 In a second statement later Wednesday, McGrath made reference to the fact Bush suffers from Parkinson's disease and is confined to a wheelchair. 
 
 "At age 93, President Bush has been confined to a wheelchair for roughly five years, so his arm falls on the lower waist of people with whom he takes pictures," McGrath said. "To try to put people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke — and on occasion, he has patted women's rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner. 
 
 "Some have seen it as innocent; others clearly view it as inappropriate. To anyone he has offended, President Bush apologizes most sincerely," McGrath said. 
 
 Allen's Facebook post, in part, reads: "#metoo. Guess what? He did this to me when we posed for a photo after the Manufacturer and Business Association dinner, after the Pat Locco scholarship was awarded." 
 
 Bush spoke at the Manufacturer and Business Association's annual dinner on June 30, 2004. Locco is Allen's late husband, and she attended the event. 
 
 "I think it was 2004; I can dig and find the exact date. He was NOT in a wheelchair then. And he gave a great talk at the dinner that night," Allen wrote. 
 
 
 
 "It was cool to be in a photo with a former president. But I remember feeling uncomfortable with that pat or touch on my behind," Allen wrote. "It didn't traumatize me. I didn't need counseling. 
 
 "I told a couple of friends about it later, but I didn't make a big deal about it then and I'm not making a big deal about it now. It just felt inappropriate. I hadn't thought about the pat on the butt until this story broke." 
 
 McGrath was not immediately available for comment about Allen's accusation. 
 
 Allen wrote in her post that after she saw a tweet from journalist Andrea Mitchell that was critical of Lind, "I wanted to tell Mitchell that it happened to me, a hometown columnist in Erie, a few years ago." 
 
 The Associated Press has reported that since Lind's claim, another actress, Jordana Grolnick, said Bush grabbed her buttocks during a group photo in 2016 at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine. She told Deadspin that Bush quipped that his favorite magician is "David Cop-a-Feel" and grabbed her. She said Barbara Bush responded, "He's going to get himself put in jail." 
 
 Author Christina Baker Kline also wrote in Slate magazine that Bush asked her "You wanna know my favorite book?” then touched her and said "David Cop-a-Feel" at an event in 2014. 
 
 Bush was president from 1989 to 1993. 
 
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– A sixth woman has come forward to accuse George HW Bush of groping her, and Roslyn Corrigan says she was just 16 when it happened. It was 2003, and Corrigan's father and other intelligence officers had brought their family members to an event to meet Bush, then 79. While she was standing next to the former president for a photo, "as soon as the picture was being snapped on the one-two-three he dropped his hands from my waist down to my buttocks and gave it a nice, ripe squeeze, which would account for the fact that in the photograph my mouth is hanging wide open," Corrigan tells Time. Her mother, Sari Young, recalls that as soon as Bush walked away, her daughter told her, "'He grabbed me on the rear end.' And I said, 'What, what?' And she said, 'Yes, he grabbed me when they were taking the picture. He grabbed me on my butt.'" Sari says they weren't sure what to do because of whom they were dealing with. "You know, it's the president. What are you supposed to do? And you've got your husband's job that could be in jeopardy. I mean, you just didn't then. You should—you should have always spoken up, always—but we didn't." "I was a child," Corrigan adds. Multiple other friends and Corrigan's ex-husband also say she told them the story. "George Bush simply does not have it in his heart to knowingly cause anyone harm or distress, and he again apologizes to anyone he may have offended during a photo op," the former president's spokesperson says in a statement to Time. Bush's other accusers are an actress, another actress, an author, a former Maine Senate candidate, and a retired journalist, all of whom shared similar stories about groping that allegedly occurred during photo ops.