Joe Biden, the
Democratic presidential candidate, has come under pressure to address
Sexual Assault claims by a former
Senate aide after the woman's neighbour came forward to corroborate the allegation. Tara Reade said the alleged assault occurred on Capitol Hill in 1993 while she was working as a staff assistant for Mr Biden, who was representing Delaware in the US Senate at the time. Mr Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has not commented on the allegations but his campaign has denied them and underscored his record on women's rights. But the former US vice president is now facing growing pressure to address the claims after Lynda LaCasse, who was Ms Reade's neighbour in the 1990s, came forward this week to claim that Ms Reade told her about the alleged assault around the time it happened. Ms LaCasse claimed that while the two
Women were neighbours in 1995 or 1996, Ms Reade had told her that the senator she had worked for "had put his hand up her skirt". "She felt like she was assaulted, and she really didn't feel there was anything she could do," Ms LaCasse, 60, told Business Insider.