EDITOR'S NOTE: This story contains details of an alleged sexual assault that some may find triggering. Viewer discretion is advised.

An Arizona Congressional candidate says she was sexually assaulted in August while repairing her campaign signs.



 The first couple of weeks after, I was very angry,  Bernadette Green-Placentia, Democratic candidate for Arizona's 8th Congressional District, said.  I was just so mad, after being a long-haul truck driver for 27 years, across 4 million miles, I had taken care of myself, and for something like this to happen so close to home, I was just furious. 

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office confirms there is now an active investigation in connection with the incident.



Greene-Placentia is now opening up about the night she says she was attacked and raped.

Hear Bernadette Greene-Placentia in her own words from the full sit-down interview below:

AZ CD-8 candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia recounts sexual assault while fixing campaign signs

 It's hard. It really makes me think of why other women don't come forward,  she told the Scripps News Group station in Phoenix in a one-on-one interview.



The Democratic Congressional candidate says she regularly repaired campaign signs damaged by monsoons at night to avoid traffic and the heat.



 Usually I would go out with my husband, a staffer,  she said.



But she says she was alone around 1 a.m. on August 14, when she went to repair a sign near 99th Avenue and Bell Road in Sun City.



Greene-Placentia believes she was hit in the head and lost consciousness.



 Then it was like, wait a minute. I'm on the ground, and then I feel sharp pain down there. And I open my eyes, and there's a guy climbing off me,  Greene-Placentia said.



She says a second man approached too.



 I started fighting, and then he just was like,  Ah, it's not worth it,'  she said.



Then, both men took off. Greene-Placentia says she was left bruised and experiencing gaps in her memory.



 I look back and it's like, why didn't I go to the hospital?  she said.  I'd always consider myself a strong person, and so I was embarra

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