Earlier today, horrific details emerged about the increasingly bizarre story of Rachel Dolezal, and it now looks as though the issue may be far more complex and disturbing than had been previously thought.
Dolezal, of course, made national headlines after her parents revealed that the civil rights activist and NAACP leader had been pretending to be black for the better part of a decade.
As more information became public, it began to look as though Dolezal's deception had as much to do with her upbringing and her damaged relationship with her family as with her desire to be accepted into a different culture.
In an interview with NBC's Savannah Guthrie last night, Dolezal revealed that she believes the people that raised her are not actually her biological parents. (Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal insist that they are her birth parents, and have the documentation to prove it.)
Just hours later, Larry and Ruthanne told People magazine that Rachel falsely accused her brother of child molestation, and that she manipulated his alleged victim into pressing charges by taking advantage of her psychiatric disorder.
TMZ is reporting that the accuser has now been identified as Rachel's younger sister, Esther. The website has also obtained legal documents in which a much younger Rachel describes a terrifying incident to police:
In her statement to investigators, Rachel claims that when Josh was 16 or 17, he held her down, pulled off her shirt, and sexually assaulted her.
She says that Josh then showed her topless photos of African women in National Geographic magazine and told her that he masturbates to them.
Rachel is quoted as telling police that Josh said he was "turned on by the black body and curious about black women sexually."
Dolezal has yet to comment publicly about this latest revelation.
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