Queensland MP Brittany Lauga breaks her silence to claim she was sexually ... trends now
A female MP claims she was drugged and sexually assaulted in a pub car park after a grainy Snapchat video of the incident emerged online in what she described as the 'worst week of her life'.
Labor MP Brittany Lauga, who is Assistant Minister for Health in the Queensland state government, has identified herself as featuring in the Snapchat video taken outside a pub in the central Queensland town of Yeppoon last Saturday.
Daily Mail Australia previously reported that a female politician lodged a complaint of sexual assault after a night out last Saturday but did not name Ms Lauga, 37.
Queensland Labor MP Brittany Lauga claims she was drugged and then sexually assaulted in pub carpark
However, Ms Lauga has told News Ltd that she features in the Snapchat video of the alleged assault, which has been widely circulated to her friends and to media outlets.
Ms Lauga insists that before learning of the video, she made a police complaint and underwent a four-hour interview with them, as well as testing positive in hospital for a drug she says she did not take.
She said the video has prompted her to come forward but also feels she owes an explanation to her Yeppoon constituents as to why she is on mental health leave.
'I watched the video,' she said.
'It was just an awful, awful thing to watch. You know, the following days have just been a living nightmare.
'You wake up and you have to remind yourself this is reality.
'I went to the police station and the hospital straight after it (the alleged assault) happened and they did forensic rape kit. They've done drug tests,
