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Omaha Steve

(99,655 posts)
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 04:20 PM Jun 2015

Man pleads guilty to conspiracy for taping senator's wife

Source: AP

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS

CANTON, Miss. (AP) — A man accused videotaping the ill wife of a U.S. senator has pleaded guilty to conspiracy.

Clayton Kelly of Pearl, Mississippi entered the plea Monday. He faces up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. It was not immediately clear when he would be sentences.

Kelly was accused of shooting video of the wife of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran while she was bedridden with dementia in a nursing home.

Images of Rose Cochran appeared online briefly during the 2014 election, during a tough Republican primary. Investigators say Kelly was one of several people who conspired to produce the video suggesting the senator was having an affair.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/047ca44aa6bf4177b9a8121c8258a29a/trial-begins-blogger-accused-us-senator-video-case



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hopemountain

(3,919 posts)
8. not a good idea.
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 06:42 PM
Jun 2015

dementia patiens are already too vulnerable and targeted with abuse by others in these settings. nor should persons with poor thinking/decision making skills be anywhere near any vulnerable humans of any age or animals.

Hekate

(90,708 posts)
5. His statement takes the cake: he thinks HIS Constitutional rights have been violated....
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 05:27 PM
Jun 2015

Filming a woman incapacitated with dementia for political gain is about the lowest he could go -- and he somehow imagines that activity is protected by the U.S. Constitution. What a cockroach. His mama must be so proud.

Archae

(46,328 posts)
10. You just insulted cockroaches.
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 07:37 PM
Jun 2015

Even they have more class than this refugee from the bottom of the sewer.

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Hekate

(90,708 posts)
11. Hey. That is exceedingly unkind to all dementia patients and their families.
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 08:18 PM
Jun 2015

"Thad probably drove her into dementia." Do yourself a favor and delete that.

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)
12. My father had dementia, prior to that he delighted in driving my mother to the edge of insanity.
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 08:59 PM
Jun 2015

The story of Thad's wife, very sad it is, reminded me of my own life experience.

I will honor your request anyway.

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)
14. Yes, how our own experience shapes us...
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 08:40 AM
Jun 2015

And will it temper us, will it soften us, will it break us, will it lift us?

Thespian2

(2,741 posts)
9. Sometimes
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 07:28 PM
Jun 2015

we find it difficult to believe any human could do such a deed...then we notice the corruption everywhere...

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