Woman Testifies About Sex With Her Attorney in Hotel Room When She Was 14; Jury Deliberating Punishment

McKINNEY — A 20-year-old woman testified Thursday that her attorney's words played on a loop in her head for years, dictating her life's decisions, good and bad."It's not something you're not used to," she said now-disbarred Michael Harssema told her before sexually assaulting her in a Dallas hotel room in 2012 when she was 14.Her testimony comes during the punishment phase of the trial for Harssema, who was found guilty a day earlier of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in 2013. Charges related to the 20-year-old woman's case are pending in Dallas County.  Continue reading...

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