New accuser says George H.W. Bush groped her while he was president

Jessica Estepa | USA TODAY

Another woman has come forward to say former president George H. W. Bush groped her during a photo-op, according to CNN.

The woman, who was not named in the report by CNN, said she attending a fundraiser for Bush's 1992 re-election campaign when the president touched her buttocks.

"We got closer together for a family photo and it was like, 'Holy crap!'" she told CNN. "It was like a gentle squeeze."

While she thought at the time that it may have been an accident, recent reports from other women about similar behavior from Bush, now 92, made her reconsider the incident.

"All the focus has been on 'he's old.' OK, but he wasn't old when it happened to me," the woman, now in her 50s, told CNN. "I've been debating what to do about it."

The woman is the seventh woman to come forward in recent weeks to say that the president touched them inappropriately during photo ops.

Bush's spokesman, Jim McGrath, did not immediately reply to a request for comment. Bush has previously apologized in response to allegations.

"George Bush simply does not have it in his heart to knowingly cause anyone distress, and he again apologizes to anyone he offended during a photo op," McGrath said last week, after a sixth woman accused the former president of groping her.

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