Brett Kavanaugh said once in a 2005 speech, “We had a good saying that we’ve held firm to to this day, which is: What happens at Georgetown Prep, stays at Georgetown Prep. I think that’s been a good thing for all of us.”
Apparently one of his best friends from Georgetown Prep didn’t get the message.
The private Catholic high school was “positively swimming in alcohol” and Kavanaugh’s graduating class of 80 students consumed at least 100 kegs of beer their senior year, according to Mark Judge, a classmate of Kavanaugh’s, who has written several books about his experiences at the elite Catholic high school near Washington, D.C.
Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor who stepped forward late last week to accuse Kavanaugh of trying to drunkenly sexually assault her at a party when she was 15 and he was 17, claimed Judge was also in the room during the alleged attack and alternatingly encouraged the assault and tried to stop it.
Judge has said he has no recollection of an assault.
Judge does not mention witnessing – or taking part in – any sexual assaults in his autobiographical books Wasted and God and Man at Georgetown Prep, which describe his struggles with alcoholism and eventual recovery.
But he does detail the hard-partying exploits of his classmates and friends – a group that included Kavanaugh – often in houses where parents were absent, matching the circumstances described by Ford of her alleged attack.
“Georgetown Prep was a school positively swimming in alcohol, and my class partied with gusto – often right under the noses of our teachers,” wrote Judge in his 2005 book God and Man at Georgetown Prep.
“Senior year, my class of eighty decided that by the end of the year we would drink a hundred kegs of beer,” wrote Judge. “I’m sorry to say that we succeeded.”
Judge described how his senior class hired a stripper for an impromptu bachelor party for his music teacher.
Photos of students vomiting at the party and posing with the stripper were posted in an underground student newspaper called the Unknown Hoya.
Christine Blasey Ford, who attended a nearby girls’ school, claimed she attended a small party with Kavanaugh and Judge in 1982 when the boys were 17 and she was 15.
Last week, Ford stepped forward to accuse Kavanaugh of assaulting her at the party. The allegations have not been corroborated.
Ford said Kavanaugh and Judge were heavily intoxicated when she met them at a small house party in Maryland. She said they took her into an upstairs bedroom where Kavanaugh pinned her to the bed, climbed on top of her, fumbled with her clothing, and put his hand over her mouth. Ford said Judge stood nearby, encouraging his friend but also telling him to ‘stop.’
Ford said the boys were laughing and turned the music up in the room which drowned out any noise from the rest of the house.
At one point, Ford said Judge jumped on top of Kavanaugh and both boys fell off of her. She said she ran into the bathroom and locked the door, and waited before she heard them go downstairs before she fled the house.
She also said the alleged assault had a detrimental impact on her life and she required years of therapy to deal with it.