KEOSAUQUA, Iowa (AP) - Supervisors in a southeast Iowa county are trying to remove the county’s chief prosecutor, accusing him of sexually harassing female employees.
The Des Moines Register reports (https://dmreg.co/2d0N0W6 ) that a lawyer for the Van Buren County board filed a petition in district court in Keosauqua (Kee-oh-SAH’-kwuh) on Thursday against County Attorney Abraham Watkins. He didn’t immediately return an Associated Press call Friday.
The action is based on a state law that lets judges remove elected officials for misconduct in office.
The petition says Watkins has commented about a female county employee’s body and appeared at work “in the presence of female county employees wearing nothing below the waist except a pair of underwear.”
The petition also says Watkins appeared drunk at a trial in which he was the prosecutor.
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Information from: The Des Moines Register, https://www.desmoinesregister.com
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