Even as Rachel Dolezal, the Spokane NAACP president whose parents outed her as white, resigned from the organization on Monday ahead of a \u201cToday\u201d show interview, another Dolezal was thrust into the spotlight.<\/p>\n
It was revealed Monday that Dolezal\u2019s older brother Joshua Dolezal is awaiting trial on charges he sexually abused a black child \u2014 charges that the Dolezal family, in their own television appearance, implied Rachel Dolezal may have helped orchestrate. Joshua Dolezal is contesting the charges and is free on $15,000 bail while awaiting trial, according to the Denver Post.<\/p>\n
Joshua Dolezal\u2019s troubles could explain at least one piece of the complicated puzzle behind this saga, the question of why Rachel Dolezal\u2019s parents would expose their daughter to such public humiliation and perhaps legal jeopardy.<\/p>\n
Joshua Dolezal, 39, is the eldest child of the Dolezal clan. Rachel is his only biological sibling \u2014 Lawrence and Ruthanne Dolezal have four adopted children, some of whom are black. Joshua now faces four felony counts of sexual assault in Colorado, according to reports in the New York Daily News, the Denver Post and other local outlets that have been confirmed by The Washington Post.<\/p>\n
The alleged incidents of sexual assault, according to a Clear Creek County affidavit in support of an arrest warrant obtained by the Daily News and reviewed by The Post, occurred at Lawrence and Ruthanne\u2019s house in Colorado \u201cin 2001 or 2002.\u201d The victim, whose name was redacted in the affidavit, \u201cwas 6 or 7 years old,\u201d and Joshua Dolezal was \u201c19 years older.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among other accusations: On two occasions, according to the affidavit, Joshua Dolezal allegedly forced the victim to perform oral sex on him. On \u201c7 or 8\u2033 other occasions, Dolezal performed oral sex on the victim.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t tell anyone or I\u2019ll hurt you,\u201d Joshua allegedly said.<\/p>\n
The affidavit included claims that an older incident of alleged abuse of another victim in 1991 had a racial element.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe family had a subscription to National Geographic magazine,\u201d it read. \u201c\u2026 Joshua Dolezal showed [redacted] his collection of photos of topless and naked African women.\u201d<\/p>\n
It continued: \u201cJoshua Dolezal was turned on by the black body and was curious about black women sexually.\u201d<\/p>\n
The abuse was reported in 2013, and Joshua Dolezal was arrested last year. The victim, according to the affidavit, \u201cwanted to report the incident now because Joshua Dolezal has a one year old daughter and [redacted] does not want the daughter to be victimized.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dolezal will be tried in August, as ABC 7 Denver reported.<\/p>\n
The allegations against Joshua Dolezal are significant because, in interviews with The Post and other outlets, the Dolezals alleged Rachel orchestrated them to win custody of her brother Izaiah. Izaiah, who is black, lives with Rachel Dolezal in Spokane \u2014 and Rachel says he is her son, the family alleged.<\/p>\n
The parents of Rachel Dolezal, the civil rights activist under fire for her disputed racial identity, say they don\u2019t know what caused their biological daughter to call herself African American.<\/p>\n
Lawrence and Ruthanne Dolezal, without specifically addressing the charges against their son, broadly denied such behavior as well as Rachel Dolezal\u2019s allegations that she was physically abused as a child.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf she\u2019s alleging there was abuse in our family from years past, then it\u2019s false and there\u2019s no need to comment on anything of that nature,\u201d Lawrence Dolezal told The Post last week. \u201cThat\u2019s just utter falsehood.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe allegations are totally false and malicious,\u201d Ruthanne Dolezal told Megyn Kelly of Fox News when she asked about them Monday. \u201cThey\u2019re fabricated.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRachel Dolezal dismisses the controversy as little more than an ugly byproduct of contentious litigation between other family members over allegations of past abuse that has divided the family,\u201d the paper said. \u201cShe\u2019s particularly suspicious of the timing, noting that the allegations broke on her son\u2019s birthday and come as the Colorado lawsuit \u2026 nears a key juncture.\u201d While she referred to a lawsuit, the charges in Colorado are criminal.<\/p>\n
Though it\u2019s not clear when and how the Dolezals became so divided, insight into the warring family comes from an unlikely source: the published writing of Joshua Dolezal, the accused.<\/p>\n
Joshua Dolezal is an English professor at Central College, a private liberal arts college in Pella, Iowa. His work, much of it nonfiction, has appeared in respected publications such as the Kenyon Review, and the University of Iowa Press published his memoir \u2014 which includes many references to his sister Rachel. <\/p>\n
\u201cDown from the Mountaintop: From Belief to Belonging\u201d offers the most complete picture heretofore of Rachel Dolezal\u2019s broken marriage. According to Lawrence Dolezal, she was married to a black man, Kevin Moore, and the couple divorced in 2004.<\/p>\n
Joshua Dolezal saw signs of trouble. In many passages, Rachel Dolezal is portrayed as the victim of an unhappy marriage whose husband won\u2019t let her and their young child leave the house \u2014 a woman who does what her spouse says when he says it.<\/p>\n
Joshua Dolezal was angry. \u201cI murdered him hundreds of times in my sleep,\u201d he wrote of his former black brother-in-law. Eventually, the couple separated.<\/p>\n
Of course, a memoir isn\u2019t a fact-checked, reported news story and the ex-husband has been unavailable for comment and has not responded to numerous published accounts of her claims. But Joshua Dolezal said he did his best.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo remember is to reconstruct and interpret,\u201d he wrote in an author\u2019s note, \u201cand this is as truthful a story as my memory can tell.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source: Washington Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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