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Man Who Attacked Former Senator In Council Bluffs Given Suspended Sentence

Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., testified on Wednesday that she was raped while serving in the Air Force.
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Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., testified on Wednesday that she was raped while serving in the Air Force.

 

A judge gave a man probation and a suspended sentence after he pleaded guilty to attacking a former U.S. senator as she was running along a riverside park in western Iowa. Dominic Henton was given the suspended sentence and probation for the Nov. 8, 2023, assault of Martha McSally, a former senator from Arizona. McSally, who served in the Senate from 2019 to 2020, had been running in a park along the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa, when a man assaulted her, she said in an Instagram video posted that day. Henton will go to a residential treatment center in Council Bluffs and participate in a sex offender treatment program, Pottawattamie County Attorney Matt Wilber told the Omaha World-Herald.