Lovick to Sax: Take down website or we may wind up in court

MILL CREEK — Democratic state Rep. John Lovick has threatened to sue his Republican opponent unless 20-year-old records surrounding sex and child abuse accusations are removed from a website the challenger created.

Lovick, through his attorney, emailed Republican Jeff Sax demanding he shut down the website, The Lovick Files, and stop distributing copies of the defamatory documents associated with it.

No charges were filed in the two-decade-old investigation of allegations that Lovick abused his daughter. Last week, the daughter, Sabrina Lovick Combs, denied her father harmed her and called on Sax to take down the site.

Attorney Todd Nichols of Everett warned in a Sept. 14 email that Sax and his campaign manager could be sued for defamation of Lovick, and invasion of privacy with respect to the daughter, if the records were not removed.

“Your use of scurrilous statements from a 29-year-old divorce action which resulted in no sanction or charges is utterly reprehensible and contrary to the democratic values of our state and country,” Nichols wrote.

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