Sexual misconduct allegations against labor icon Cesar Chavez revealed in New York Times report

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The New York Times is reporting caller allegations against Cesar Chavez, the precocious labour icon. He is accused of grooming and sexually abusing women and minors for years.

The Times elaborate an extended signifier of alleged misconduct.

One pistillate told the insubstantial she was lone 12 years aged erstwhile Chavez archetypal touched her inappropriately and past 15 erstwhile helium raped her.

Another pistillate alleged dozens of intersexual encounters with Chavez implicit a play of 4 years, opening erstwhile she was 13.

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The Times' probe claims Chavez utilized his presumption of powerfulness astatine the United Farm Workers national to exploit galore of the pistillate members. The insubstantial reports that a fistful of Chavez's relatives and UFW leaders person been alert of assorted allegations of intersexual misconduct for years.

The nonfiction comes 1 time aft the UFW announced it learned of the allegations, characterizing them arsenic "deeply troubling."

The national rapidly distanced itself from Chavez, stating it would not people its co-founder's day -- Cesar Chavez Day -- connected March 31.

On Wednesday, the union's different co-founder, Dolores Huerta, broke her silence, claiming she, too, had 2 abstracted unwanted intersexual encounters with Chavez successful the 1960s.

"The archetypal clip I was manipulated and pressured..." she wrote. "I didn't consciousness I could accidental no..."

"The 2nd clip I was forced, against my will, and successful an situation wherever I felt trapped," Huerta wrote.

The Times' study includes a photograph of the 2 lasting unneurotic successful Fresno successful 1965.

Now 95 years old, Huerta said publically for the archetypal clip that the alleged intersexual encounters with Chavez led to 2 pregnancies she kept concealed "until conscionable a fewer weeks ago."

Huerta wrote she "carried this concealed for arsenic agelong arsenic I did due to the fact that gathering the question and securing farmworker rights was my life's work."

The Chavez household aboriginal responded to The New York Times article, penning they are "devastated" and calling it "deeply painful."

They privation healing to the survivors who came forward.

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