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deminks

(11,011 posts)
Sat May 27, 2017, 09:20 PM May 2017

Hastert faces new lawsuit alleging he raped student

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/27/denis-hastert-new-lawsuit-238893

Former 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
Off to the greatest page malaise May 2017 #1
Every Republican at the top has a secret. hunter May 2017 #2
Pence and Ingemunson are cut from the same cloth. nt oasis May 2017 #3
K&R Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2017 #4

hunter

(38,299 posts)
2. Every Republican at the top has a secret.
Sat May 27, 2017, 11:23 PM
May 2017

The Republican party doesn't trust anyone who's not dirty or deranged in some manner. Trump and Pence are both.

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