Rep. Nancy Mace accused her ex-fiancé and three business partners of committing “corrupted” sexual crimes against herself and a dozen other women-underage girls-in explosive comments in the house of delegates on Monday.
The Republican Pol in South Carolina said she was emerging with the shocking accusations of rape, voyeurism and other sexual abuse after exposing a wealth of more than 10,000 videos and other photographic evidence recorded on the phone by her former husband Patrick Bryant.
“I accidentally brought to light some of the most horrible crimes against the conceivable women -we are talking about rape, non -consensual photos, non -consensual videos of women and minor girls, and the premeditated, calculated, exploitation of women And girls in my district, “Mace said in her house in the floor.
“Today you hear about the corrupt men behind these complicated, bad deeds,” she added. “These men did not only harm their victims; They recorded their corruption as if it were an honorary sign. ‘
The Digital Files Mace claim that she discovered in November 2023, do not contain -consensual images of “female employees, women of male employees, girlfriends and other women who did not clearly know” upskirt photos “by at least one minor girl the daughter was from a business partner.
“Last year I had to tell a woman that she had been raped, and she didn’t even know,” said Mace and told the legislators that she was discovering a video from Bryant and one of his business partners would have recorded another business partner sexual abuse of a ” disabled “woman.
“She had no idea because she was not laid out at the time of the rape,” said Mace. “I knew she had been raped because I accidentally found the video raped from her.”
“The two of them, the three of them business partners, they had their phones out just as much. Filming her while she was raped. And she was completely laid out. There was no movement. There was no life. I couldn’t even say if this young woman was alive. ‘
Mace, who did not provide evidence during her comments, is protected from potential criminal prosecution and civil court cases by the speech and debate clause of the Constitution, which offers legislators immunity for ‘actions that are undertaken within the legislative atmosphere’.
The Congressman claims that she told the office of the Attorney General that there were children present on the site where the woman was reportedly raped, but that social workers were not informed.
Mace also claimed that one of the business partners of Bryant had ‘tried to intimidate her’ to reveal the evidence -and that attorney general Alan Wilson in South Carolina could not investigate the action as witness intimidation, despite opening An investigation into the accusations of sex crime.
Bryant denied the allegations of Mace in a statement The New York Times.
“I categorically deny these allegations,” he said. “I take this issue seriously and will work completely with all the necessary legal processes to erase my name.”
The Congress Woman said that the Wilson’s office seven months after the moment she came for the first time, with the allegations and evidence for an investigation to be opened to be opened.
With some female victims apparently listened in the house gallery, Mace further told how stumbled on her ex-fiancé on a dating app in October 2023, Bryant led her access to his phone where she was shocked to have a Video of herself “undressing” and “not knowing that she was being filmed.”
“I set up the volume to hear if there was audio. I heard my voice. I zoomed in on the video. The woman was, “Mace revealed. “My whole body paralyzed and I couldn’t move.”
After she had made the terrifying discovery, she claimed that Bryant ‘physically abused her’ and the following month she was forced out of her house and ‘in hiding’, with friends and changing the address at least four times in one year.
“I still made the Mark Patrick Bryant on me. Instead of seeing this figure as a scar, I see this scar as the characteristic of a free woman; Free from a monster, “Mace also said, revealing that she had since been diagnosed with post -traumatic stress disorder.
“This is not a story about bitter ex-girlfriend … or consensual sex steps, there are plenty. I don’t care what two consenting adults agree to do with it. That is the definition of freedom. This is a story about predators who hunt for women on sport. “
During the speech, Mace claimed that Wilson deliberately established his investigation into the sex crimes and was part of “a system that could not protect” female victims.
“If someone wanted to arrest me because I stand up for women – here are my wrists. Arrest me. Take me to prison, “she threatened. “I am 100% guilty of transferring proof of squeaking Toms, to transfer proof of rape, to transfer proof of voyeurism, to transfer proof of sex trade and who knows, probably a lot more and more crimes I don’t have time to enter tonight. “
“South Carolina attorney -general Alan Wilson – you are not a real man because real men, real men are protecting women,” she said with contempt.
Wilson’s office described Mace’s statements regarding the behavior of the attorney general of South Carolina as “categorically false” and “politically motivated”.
“Madam. Mace understands or is deliberately not wrong the role of the attorney general. At present, our office has not received any reports or requests for help from law enforcement or prosecution with regard to these matters. Moreover, the attorney and members have general and members of His office did not play a role and no knowledge of these allegations to its public statements, ”read a statement from the office of South Carolina AG.
“Congress woman Mace and the attorney general have been together at several events in the last six months. She also has the personal mobile telephone number of the attorney general. Not once she approached him or contacted him with regard to her worries, “the statement continued.
The AG office noted that it would be up to local law enforcement agencies to investigate potential evidence of a crime.
Bryant and two of his alleged business partners to which Mace referred, John Osborne and Eric Bowman, did not respond to the posts for comment.
Brian Musgrave, who claims Mace to have owned with Bryant with hidden cameras installed in it, called the allegations ‘unfounded’.
“The statement by Nancy Mace tonight is a dangerous mix of lies and unfounded accusations, recklessly leveled in four people without a piece of evidence,” he said the post.
“Her continuous pattern of making inflammatory claims without evidence is not only reckless, but also a flagrant attempt to arm the legal system for politics and personal gain,” Musgrave added.
Mace, 47, mentioned at least a dozen pieces of legislation that she had written to burst of sex offenders and to protect women against abuse – including her Sue Voyeurs Act, who makes the persecution possible of those who do not take consensual sex videos of others.
“I sound the alarm to predators who still roam through the streets of South Carolina, and our most important law enforcement officer, attorney general Alan Wilson, knows,” said the Republican Pol.
“Nothing is suspicions. These are not allegations. These are facts. It has been documented, “said Mace about her claims.
