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Second woman alleges sexual misconduct by ICC prosecutor Karim Khan

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A second woman has come forward to accuse International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Karim Khan of sexual misconduct, The Guardian reported Thursday.

Khan, who was responsible for pursuing ICC arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant, temporarily stepped aside from his role earlier this year after an allegation emerged of sexual misconduct in the past two years.

The new accuser, identified by the UK newspaper by the alias “Patricia,” worked for Khan as an unpaid intern in 2009, when she was in her 20s and he was a leading defense lawyer on the court.

She described his behavior as a “constant onslaught” of advances, telling The Guardian: “He shouldn’t have been doing it. He was my employer.”

Lawyers for Khan told the outlet: “It is wholly untrue that he has engaged in sexual misconduct of any kind.”

They also asserted he had provided evidence to investigators that “sits squarely at odds with the allegations that have been put to him” and “in a number of material respects show those allegations to be demonstrably untrue.”

According to “Patricia,” Khan once groped her breasts while the two of them were in the court’s offices, with a “prolonged” caress that was “completely unconsented.”

“It wasn’t like ‘oops, I........

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