The woman who accused former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield of multiple sexual assaults since she was a teenager was revealed to be his own sister-in-law.
Rebekah Chatfield, who is married to the politician’s younger brother, claims the former speaker assaulted her “more times than I can count” beginning when she was 15 years old more than a decade ago.
Rebekah, now 26, filed the criminal complaint with the Lansing Police Department against Lee, 33, she said in several interviews with Bridge Michigan.
The assaults allegedly began when she dated the politician’s younger brother and continued until 2021, she told the outlet.
“He destroyed me, and has controlled my life since I was 15-16, the past 10-11 years,” she said. “And I know the only way to get justice for this is to come forward and to file a criminal (complaint) against him.”
Lee, a Republican, was the youngest person to serve as Speaker of the House in Michigan in over 100 years. He left office in 2020 due to term limits.
Rebekah claimed the assaults began when she was 15 or 16 years old at Northern Michigan Christian Academy, a private school in Burt Lake where Lee taught and coached soccer before he launched his political career. His father is pastor of the church, the school superintendent and a teacher.
She had reportedly been dating Lee’s younger brother, Aaron Chatfield. Rebekah and Aaron were pushed to marry when at 19, after their families discovered they were having sex, according to the report.
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