HAMILTON COUNTY Woman: Sex took place at work

The prosecutor said the affair was consensual.
CINCINNATI (AP) -- A woman who accused Hamilton County Prosecutor Michael Allen of sexual harassment said he coerced her into a relationship and threatened to ruin her career if she stopped seeing him.
Rebecca Collins, 33, said in an interview Saturday with The Cincinnati Enquirer that her boss used his position to control the relationship.
"The entire relationship is based on a power structure that is so out of whack that it was intolerable," said Collins, an assistant Hamilton County prosecutor.
Allen held a news conference Aug. 25 saying he regretted what he called a consensual affair from December 1999 through August 2003.
Allen, who is running unopposed in November for a second, four-year term, has said he will not resign from his job. The Republican stepped down late last month as southwest Ohio regional chairman for President Bush's re-election campaign.
Collins said the relationship began with an encounter at her home in December 1999, about six months after she began work as an intern in the prosecutor's office.
She said Allen insisted on visiting her, made repeated sexual advances after arriving, and that she eventually gave in.
Collins said she was reluctant, because he was her boss and because he was married to Lisa Allen, then a Hamilton County Municipal Court magistrate.
Collins said she and Allen would have sex at the office before or after work because he didn't want his wife to find out. She said they had sex at least once during normal business hours.
Allen has denied that he violated county policies or had sex with Collins in the office or on county time.