Teenage stalker Shawn Christy 'threatened to rape Sarah Palin's daughter'

Teenage stalker Shawn Christy 'threatened to rape Sarah Palin's daughter'

 

Sarah Palin has won a new restraining order against teenage stalker Shawn Christy after alleging that he threatened to rape her daughter.

A judge in Anchorage, in Mrs Palin's home state of Alaska, granted the former Republican candidate for vice-president the new temporary order after she claimed that he had become more 'brazen' in his threats to her and her family.

Christy also made phonecalls to Mrs Palin's home calling her a 'slut or whore', it is alleged.

Bristol and Sarah Palin, pictured in March 2010. Rumours swept the internet alleging the presidential hopeful was in fact the grandmother of her son, Trig

Legal submissions do not make clear which daugther Mrs Palin claims was threatened, but elsewhere in her depositions she mentioned that Christy targeted Willow in his threats and that they had 'bothered [her] tremendously.'

Just last month Christy was arrested by the FBI in Anchorage, Alaska, 50 miles from Mrs Palin's home town of Wasilla.

Christy had originally been issued a court order in October last year warning him to keep away from the Republican former-vice presidential candidate.

He was alleged to have signed off threatening letters to the right-wing politician with 'your magic enemy'.

It comes as Palin faces renewed claims backing a conspiracy claim that she fooled the American public into believing she was pregnant when in fact the child was her daughter's, an American academic has claimed.

Shawn Christy: He allegedly made phonecalls to Mrs Palin's home calling her a 'slut or whore'

Rumours first emerged that Palin's teenage daughter, Bristol, is the real mother of four-month-old Trig in 2008.

Trig, who has Down's syndrome was born in April that year, before Palin launched her run for vice president.

After conducting a new analysis of the available evidence, Professor Bradford Scharlott of Northern Kentucky University has claimed that the conspiracy theory is likely to be true.

Expecting: Sarah Palin during her pregnancy

At the time, political bloggers pointed to the 44-year-old Alaska governor's slimline figure in photographs taken when she was seven months pregnant and the fact that she returned to work just three days after giving birth.

Since then, and in the face of vehement denials from Mrs Palin and her 2008 running mate John McCain's campaign team, the rumour has persisted, although it has not been subject to rigorous examination by the U.S. press.

It is an ironic echo of claims, made mainly by Republican supporters, that current President Barack Obama, the winner of the 2008 election, was not born in America.

Now, in a 29-page academic report, Professor Scharlott has re-examined the evidence supporting the theory. He points to several key areas of doubt regarding the official story:

• Mrs Palin behaved oddly when she went into labour during a meeting of the Republican Governor's Association in Texas. Rather than rushing to hospital, she gave the keynote speech before travelling for more than 10 hours back to Alaska.
• Mat-Su Regional Medical Centre, the hospital where Trig was delivered, will not confirm whether he was born there, or when.
• Mat-Su also lacks pre-natal intensive care, making it a 'less than ideal' place to deliver a child with Downs syndrome. Mrs Palin was close to several hospitals in both Texas and Alaska that did have these facilities
• Mrs Palin has never produced a birth certificate for Trig.

At the time, Republican supporters claimed the speculation was a vicious attempt to discredit John McCain's surprise choice as his running mate.

Officials in the McCain camp said it was 'clearly absurd'. Aides said there were photographs of Mrs Palin looking visibly pregnant before she gave birth.

Sarah Palin and family: Husband Todd and son Track and daughters Willow (left), Bristol and Piper (bottom)

But Professor Scharlott has slammed the U.S. press over their treatment of the story. Mainstream newspapers, he wrote, 'treated the fake pregnancy rumour as untouchable.'

He concludes that, given that this hoax would be a fraud perpetrated on the entire country by a vice-presidential candidate, the media should have pursued the story more aggressively.

'With very few exceptions, members of the press in the United States have failed to show appropriate skepticism [sic] about Palin's unproven claim that she is the birth mother of Trig, a claim she has used to turbo charge her career,' he wrote.

The claims are ironic given the attacks on Barack Obama by the so-called 'birther' movement, which claims that there is no conclusive evidence that the current U.S. President was really born in the country - a prerequisite for holders of the office.