Labor leader Dolores Huerta appeared to corroborate allegations of abuse against young women or minors by the late Cesar Chavez on Wednesday, writing in a statement that she had two non-consensual "sexual encounters" with him that ended in pregnancy.The allegations of abuse by Chavez, himself a union and civil rights leader, were first reported by the New York Times on Wednesday morning. Chavez and Huerta were co-founders of the National Farm Workers Association in the 1960s. The group later became the United Farm Workers union, which still represents nearly 5,000 farm workers. Chavez died in 1993. Huerta remains active in politics. Huerta, 95, wrote that she kept the assaults secret because she "believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for." The investigation and the allegations shared within it inspired her to share her experiences, she said.…