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After a second woman came forward on Friday and accused Virginia’s Democratic Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault, rights groups and lawmakers described the allegations as credible and called on Fairfax to resign immediately.

In a statement released through her lawyer, Meredith Watson alleged that Fairfax raped her while they were both students at Duke University in 2000.

“Mr. Fairfax’s attack was premeditated and aggressive,” read Watson’s statement, which comes just two days after Dr. Vanessa Tyson—a professor of politics at Scripps College in Claremont, California—issued a statement of her own accusing Fairfax of sexually assaulting her in 2004.

“Sexual violence is never acceptable,” UltraViolet executive director and co-founder Shaunna Thomas said after Watson released her statement. “We believe survivors, we believe Dr. Vanessa Tyson, we believe Meredith Watson. Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax must resign.”

“Virginians deserve leaders they can trust and respect,” Thomas concluded.