There has been a great deal of local news coverage of Hailey’s initial accusation, as well as her many classmates who have come forward to corroborate her accounts of Bryce’s behavior. Now two more women have published their stories of Bryce Milligan physically assaulting them. Courtenay Martin shares an account that, disturbingly, indicates people in the San Antonio literary community knew about Bryce’s inclinations well before he was hired to teach high school students. Denise McVea shares an experience that is both a confirmation of Hailey’s account and yet another portrait of Bryce using professional contexts to make unwanted physical advances on women. (I notice a particular similarity in Denise’s story—Bryce, when challenged, explaining away his actions by saying weight issues had made his a sexless marriage—with my own family’s experience of Bryce attempting to excuse his relationship with Hailey by saying he was impotent due to alcoholism. When called out for his improprieties in private settings, he seems to have a repeated tactic of oversharing personal sexual difficulties in an attempt to garner sympathy.)
These additional accounts undermine the feeble attempts that Bryce and those few speaking in his support have made to dismiss Haley’s story as a fabrication. Taken together, these stories depict a pattern of behavior going back decades.