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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2016
Seaside woman
At debate, governor says she
was victim of domestic violence dies in crash
The Daily Astorian
Brown did not
disclose any
details of abuse
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
PORTLAND — During
a heated exchange with her
opponent in the gubernatorial
race Friday, Gov. Kate Brown
revealed that she has been a
victim of domestic violence.
Brown made the disclo-
sure during the second debate
with GOP gubernatorial nomi-
nee Dr. William “Bud” Pierce,
hosted by the City Club of Port-
land at the Sentinel hotel.
Moderator Laura Gunder-
son of The Oregonian asked
a city club member’s ques-
tion about what the candidates
would do to improve the lot
of women. The member refer-
enced a report last week by the
Women’s Foundation of Ore-
gon that found Oregon women
continue
to
be victims of
domestic vio-
lence and sexual
assault at high
rates.
Gov. Kate
“I
know
Brown
what it feels
like to be a vic-
tim of domestic violence,”
Brown responded, emotion in
her voice.
Brown’s campaign con-
irmed Friday that the governor
has been a victim of domestic
violence but declined to pro-
vide details about her experi-
ence. The perpetrator was not
Brown’s husband, Dan Lit-
tle, said Chris Pair, a spokes-
man with Brown’s campaign.
The couple married in October
1997.
After the revelation, Brown
spoke about her work as a law-
yer representing domestic vio-
lence victims and her work
in the Legislature, where she
served in the House of Repre-
sentatives and Senate before
winning election as secretary
of state.
“I know what it feels like to
represent clients who can’t get
restraining orders on abusive
partners,” Brown continued.
“That’s why I spent a number
of years in the Oregon Legis-
lature strengthening Oregon’s
domestic violence and sexual
assault laws, including increas-
ing penalties for domestic vio-
lence when a child was pres-
ent, including getting the irst
general fund dollars ever for
domestic violence shelters.”
In his answer to the ques-
tion, Pierce, a Salem oncolo-
gist, did not address the gover-
nor’s disclosure.
“Despite the wonderful
efforts of our government lead-
ership, Oregon inds … its
women, its poor women, hor-
ribly underpaid, violence com-
mitted against them at a highest
level in the country and sex-
ual violence against them at the
highest level in the country,”
Pierce said.
“A woman that has great
education and training and a
great job is not susceptible to
this kind of abuse by men,” he
continued, drawing boos from
the crowd.
Pierce later said that he
meant that women with good
jobs and resources are more
likely to be able to afford law-
yers and get out of abusive sit-
uations than poor women. He
said he did not mean to say that
women with education and a
good job are not abused.
“Dr. Pierce showed that he’s
not just out of touch with Ore-
gonians, he doesn’t exhibit even
a basic understanding of the
problems women face, regard-
less of their education level or
income,” Pair said Friday. “As
Gov. Brown noted, she and
countless other women from all
walks of life have experienced
domestic violence.”
The Capital Bureau is a col-
laboration between EO Media
Group and Pamplin Media
Group.
SEASIDE — A Seaside
woman died Friday after-
noon after her car crashed on
Highway 53 about 10 miles
southeast of the city.
Connie Kay Henry, 59,
was apparently driving her
silver Oldsmobile coupe
southbound on the highway
around 4:30 p.m. when she
drifted off the shoulder and
lost control, Oregon State
Police said. The car over-
turned and Henry, who was
not wearing a seat belt, was
ejected and pinned under-
neath, according to state
police.
The crash closed the
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
A Warrenton man is
accused of kidnapping and
assaulting his girlfriend after a
dispute last week on the beach
off Delaura Beach Road.
Eric Nelson Sharpsteen,
42, pleaded not guilty Friday
in Circuit Court to second-de-
gree kidnapping, coercion,
two counts of fourth-degree
assault and harassment.
In the early morning hours
of Sept. 22, Sharpsteen and
his girlfriend went to an area
of the beach in Warrenton,
where locals call Strawberry
Knoll. The couple got into a
ight, and Sharpsteen report-
edly grabbed his girlfriend’s
hair and refused to let her go.
Warrenton Police Chief
Mathew Workman said the act
of forcibly restricting some-
one from leaving an area is
considered kidnapping.
“He was keeping her there
and dragging her around by
her hair,” Workman said.
Police responded to a call
at about 8 a.m. to the couple
verbally ighting near the UPS
store in Warrenton. Before an
oficer arrived, Sharpsteen
left the scene. His girlfriend,
who was visibly injured, told
police about the earlier inci-
dent on the beach. Sharpsteen
was arrested moments later.
“The charges are stem-
ming from what she disclosed
happened the night before,”
Workman said.
Sharpsteen has a lengthy
criminal history in Clatsop
County.
In October 2013, he
pleaded no contest to felon in
possession of a irearm and
felon in possession of body
armor. The charges stemmed
from an arrest in March 2013,
when Clatsop County Sher-
iff’s Ofice found 21 irearms,
body armor, methamphet-
amine, drug paraphernalia,
stolen identiication, brass
knuckles and hundreds of
rounds of live ammunition
in the John Day Trailer Park.
Sharpsteen was sentenced to
two months in jail and three
years probation.
In June 2014, Sharpsteen
pleaded no contest to irst-de-
gree aggravated animal abuse
after he maliciously killed a
highway for about four
hours while investigators
reconstructed the accident.
The state police were
assisted by Medix, the Ham-
let Volunteer Fire Department
and the state Department of
Transportation.
Washington man accused of
sexually abusing young girl
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
A Bellingham, Washing-
ton, man has been extradited
to Clatsop County on charges
of sodomy and sex abuse.
Juan Carlos Jimenez-
Mares, 28, is accused of sex-
ually abusing a young girl
multiple times between Jan-
uary 2009 and January 2012
in Clatsop County. The girl
was between the ages of
5 and 8 during the alleged
abuse.
Warrenton man charged with kidnapping
Refused to let
girlfriend go
after ight
Oregon State Police
A Seaside woman died
Friday when her car over-
turned on Highway 53.
dog named Basker. He was
sentenced to six months in
prison.
Sharpsteen remains in cus-
tody in Clatsop County Jail on
$250,000 bail. He is due back
in court in October for an early
resolution conference.
Jimenez-Mares
was
indicted by a grand jury in
July. He was booked into
Clatsop County Jail Thurs-
day afternoon. He remains in
custody on $500,000 bail.
On Friday, Jimenez-
Mares pleaded not guilty in
Circuit Court to irst-degree
sodomy and two counts of
irst-degree sex abuse. He is
ordered to have no contact
with the victim.
He will return to court in
October for an early resolu-
tion conference.
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