Assange: Accusers in a tizzy
London, Dec. 21: The Wikileaks founder, Mr Julian Assange, had an affair with a 16-year-old girl when he was 18 and fathered a boy who is now 20 years old, a media report said on Monday. The revelation by the Daily Mail throws new light on Mr Assange’s formative teenage years.
Mr Assange has remained fanatically secretive about his own past, the daily said.
Raised by his mother Christine — who flew into London from Australia to see him in December— Mr Assange had lived in 37 towns by the time he was 14, receiving much of his education at home.
The identity of his father remains a mystery, but it has been learnt that his mother was on the run from a former lover who had turned into something of a stalker.
In the late eighties, by the time he was 16 or 17, Julian, his mother and stepbrother found themselves living in a tiny bungalow in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne.
According to the daily, Mr Assange, his stepbrother and mother remained in their home for about a year, but at that point 18-year-old Julian met a local girl of 16, with whom he developed a relationship.
Meanwhile, Mr Assange explained to the BBC why he was fighting extradition to Sweden. “The law says I... have certain rights, and these rights mean that I do not need to speak to random prosecutors around the world who simply want to have a chat, and won’t do it in any other standard way,” he said.
He said that one account of what occurred in August was that after having discovered they had each had sex with him, they had got into a “tizzy”, or a panic, about the possibility of sexually transmitted diseases.
As a result, he said, the women had gone to the police for advice “and then the police jumped in on this and bamboozled them.”
Mr Assange also confirmed that WikiLeaks was holding a vast amount of material about Bank of America which it intends to release early next year.
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