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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHastert faces new lawsuit alleging he raped student
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/27/denis-hastert-new-lawsuit-238893Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, already serving federal prison time for charges relating to his sexual abuse of children decades ago, is facing a new lawsuit alleging he raped a boy aged 9 or 10 in the early 1970s.
The suit was filed Friday in county court in Yorkville, Illinois, by a man who claims he was raped by Hastert while using a bathroom in a state building in 1973 or 1974.
The man, identified by the pseudonym "Richard Doe," asserts that he was riding his bike and stopped to use the restroom when Hastert barged in and sodomized him. The plaintiff claims he didn't immediately recognize the assailant but later realized that it was Hastert, then a teacher and coach at Yorkville High School.
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In the new suit, Doe claims he tried to report Hastert's attack in 1984 or 1985 at the office of the local prosecutor, Kendall County State's Attorney Dallas Ingemunson, a close political ally of Hastert. The suit, first reported by the local Kendall County Record newspaaper, alleges that Ingemunson brushed aside the effort to report the alleged crime.
"Ingemunson threatened to charge Plaintiff with a crime and accused him of slandering Hastert's name," the suit claims.
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Hastert faces new lawsuit alleging he raped student (Original Post)
deminks
May 2017
OP
malaise
(269,078 posts)1. Off to the greatest page
What a coverup
hunter
(38,320 posts)2. Every Republican at the top has a secret.
The Republican party doesn't trust anyone who's not dirty or deranged in some manner. Trump and Pence are both.
oasis
(49,393 posts)3. Pence and Ingemunson are cut from the same cloth. nt
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,066 posts)4. K&R