RFK Jnr accused of sexual assault and posing with barbecued dog in explosive magazine article

An explosive new profile of Robert F Kennedy Jnr accuses the presidential hopeful of sexually assaulting a former babysitter and features a photo that appears to show him posing with a barbecued dog.

Those are just some of the alarming claims made by Joe Hagan, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine, in a lengthy article published on Tuesday about the Independent presidential candidate.

The story suggests that while Kennedy’s siblings are “furious” and “heartbroken” over his candidacy, “even they may not know his darkest secrets”.

Those secrets include what the magazine claims is the diary entry of a woman hired as a part-time babysitter by the Kennedy family in 1998. The then-23-year-old woman accused Kennedy Jnr of rubbing her leg under a table, and later groping her while she was in his kitchen.

The story also gives more details about Kennedy’s past substance abuse issues, which is something he speaks openly about.

Hagan references an incident in which a “cavalier” Kennedy once did lines of cocaine in front of a reporter who was writing a book about the family, as well as an overdose on a plane in 1983.

But perhaps the most shocking detail in the story is a now-viral photograph of the 70-year-old politician and anti-vaccine activist posing next to an unidentified woman with what appears to be the remains of a cooked dog.