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Related: About this forumPowerful PA. Republican Official Charged With Drugging his Employee and Raping Her Twice
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20131127_Former_Montco_GOP_boss_arrested.htmlHe was the long-time powerful Republican Chairman of one of PA.'s most populated and affluent counties. He only resigned after he found out he was about to be indicted.
According to the Grand Jury, he not only drugged one of his own employees, but then sexually assaulted her twice. She had injuries from the attacks which were still prominent a week later.
She had agreed to accept a ride home from her boss after a company party where everyone had been drinking.
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"Less than a month ago, Kerns shared the spotlight at a party gathering with Gov. Corbett. On Tuesday, he was escorted in handcuffs from court after a county grand jury portrayed him as a "manipulative and predatory" rapist.
The victim said "I didn't know if I could go through it. I didn't know if I could put my family through it," she later told county detectives, citing Kerns' prominence, according to the grand jury report. "I am worried I could go through the whole process and he could just walk away. I felt I had an obligation to protect others from having it happen to them."
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Powerful PA. Republican Official Charged With Drugging his Employee and Raping Her Twice (Original Post)
JPZenger
Nov 2013
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Shadowflash
(1,536 posts)1. Ah...
The party of 'family values' at it again.
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)2. Just wondering if anyone knows
If Fox News has covered this story.And they got the nerve to call us black men thugs
Ian_rd
(2,124 posts)3. If they did ...
... they would mistakenly (yea) call him a Democrat.
calimary
(81,110 posts)6. Pardon the coarse language, bigdarryl, but just fuck 'em.
And fuck that beast Robert J. Kerns, 66, too!
I see his name is not readily available in the OP - one has to go to the link. In case one doesn't have enough time, I'm naming the perp SOB here.
Robert J. Kerns, 66. And a high-ranking Pennsylvania republi-CON, at that.
Ian_rd
(2,124 posts)4. Hopes and prayers to the victim
The urge to just make it go away must be strong, but she is showing courage by taking this on.
And I hope he is fucking nailed to the wall.
rocktivity
(44,572 posts)5. She asked for it by drugging herself.
Twice.
rocktivity
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)9. GOP to America: F/ck y'all, every day of the week, and twice on Sunday.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)7. Whoa
That's horrible. I hope that piece of shit is made an example of.
catbyte
(34,333 posts)8. Another "Family Values" hypocrite. what a creep.
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)10. A predator,
nothing more!