An anonymous woman claimed George Zimmerman molested her for nearly 10 years starting when she was 6-years-old and accused his family of being racist, according to new evidence released by prosecutors.
The woman, identified only as Witness 9, made the explosive statements to police in March, a month after Zimmerman shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in a gated community in Sanford, Fla.
In a 27-minute recorded interview released by special prosecutor Angela Corey, the woman says she is related to Zimmerman and that the abuse started when she was 6 and he was 8.
During visits with Zimmerman and his family, the woman said Zimmerman groped, fondled and kissed her and stuck his hands in her underwear.
"We would all lay in front of the TV and we would have pillows and blankets and he would reach under the blankets and try to do things," the woman said, according to the Orlando Sentinel. "I would try to push him off, but he was bigger and stronger and older."
"I was a kid. I didn't know any better," she said.
The woman also said that Zimmerman groped her while hiding behind curtains and, in one case when she was 12, Zimmerman made her grab his penis.
"I wanted to make it stop, but I didn't know how," the woman said.
The woman said the last incident occurred at a house his family owned in Lake Mary, Fla., when she was 16.
The woman said Zimmerman told her to lie on a bed and started rubbing her.
The woman said she kept quiet about the abuse until 2005, when, at 20, she told her sister what happened.
The woman and her parents confronted Zimmerman at an Orlando-area restaurant, and he told them he was sorry and then left, according to the Sentinel. "He always was just, you know, very charming and personable with everyone," the woman said. "But he was different behind closed doors with me."
The family didn't talk about it again, and Zimmerman stopped showing up at family get-togethers, she said.
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