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Before sunrise one overcast morning in 2018, a woman sat in the
parking lot of a Juneau, Alaska, urgent care clinic, her head
ringing from a ruptured eardrum. The man who hit her was an Alaska
state representative, Zach Fansler, who soon resigned from office
because of the drunken encounter.

After the night out with friends, the two went to Fansler’s hotel
room but did not have sex, the woman said. Fansler was drunk.

“I thought, ‘We’ll fall asleep and we’ll just fool around in the morning,’” she said.

The pair kissed but remained clothed, the woman said. Fansler struck
the woman on both sides of the head late that night in his hotel
room.

According to the charges, the woman told police that it felt as if
the legislator hit her as hard as he could with both his right and
left hands. Her face burned. She heard a ringing in her ears.

“He was saying things after he hit me that, like, he wanted to beat
me. He was asking if I was gonna cry, but it wasn’t in a concerned
way, it was like in an excited way,” she said. “So I could tell this
was part of sex for him.”

In a charging document later filed against Fansler, prosecutors
wrote that, “Throughout the course of the evening, there had been no discussions about the nature of the type of sexual activity Fansler
liked, and Fansler had not requested any permission to engage in any
sort of aggressive sexual activity.”

Later, in a text, Fansler indicated his interest in BDSM, as if to
explain the violence.

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