The woman whose lawsuit accuses Buffalo Common Council President Darius Pridgen of sexual assaults said Thursday that the incidents never happened, she never filed a lawsuit and she never talked to an attorney about Pridgen.
“I don’t know nothing about it,” the accuser told The Buffalo News on Thursday night. “It didn’t happen on my behalf. Honest to God.”
Buffalo Common Council President Darius Pridgen is accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a parishioner at True Bethel Baptist Church, where he has served as the longtime pastor, in a new lawsuit filed under the Adult Survivors Act.
The woman said she did not know anything about the accusations until her son woke her up Wednesday night.
“He asked me did I know anything about this,” she said. “I told him, ‘Hell no. Just like I told pastor Kenny.’ “
Kenneth Simmons, the pastor of Cold Spring Bible Chapel on Northland Avenue, called The Buffalo News on Thursday and said the woman attends his church. She has been a member for the past eight years. When he asked her about the accusations, she told him that “none of this happened,” Simmons said.
Simmons, who was director of recreational programming for the City of Buffalo until about a month ago, provided the woman’s telephone number…
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