GOP Ex-lawmaker charged with rape

[CatWoman]

Klaudt accused of sexual contact with foster kids, pages
By Terry Woster
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Published: May 19, 2007

PIERRE - Former Republican Rep. Ted Klaudt could spend the rest of his life in prison after turning himself in to authorities Friday on felony charges that include eight counts of rape involving foster children and former legislative pages.

Five girls told authorities they were assaulted by Klaudt, court documents state, although charges filed Friday involve only two of the girls.

Four of the girls said they were accosted in Klaudt's hotel room in Pierre, where he stayed while serving in the South Dakota Legislature. Two of the girls were legislative pages when they were attacked, they told investigators.

He's accused of performing "ovary checks" and "breast exams" under the guise that he was helping young women donate their reproductive eggs, according to court records.

House Speaker Thomas Deadrick, R-Platte, accompanied Klaudt in court Friday, saying he was acting as Klaudt's lawyer only for Friday's court hearings.

"I'm here as a friend who happens to be a lawyer," said Deadrick, who served four years with Klaudt in the House.

Terry Pechota of Rapid City, a lawyer who has represented Klaudt, said he would not be able to comment on the case.

Additional charges of stalking, witness tampering and sexual contact with a minor were filed Friday. Charges were filed in Hughes County, which includes Pierre, and in Corson County, where Klaudt, 49, lives near the rural community of Walker.

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070519/NEWS/705190310/1001

[fooj]

1. Another one? What? Seems like they all attend a "school for sexual deviants"

Their day is coming, imo.

[acmavm]

2. How vile and disgusting...

http://cmsimg.argusleader.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=DF&Date=20070519&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=705190310

Check out this guy.

[CatWoman]

3. he looks like the typical scumbag, doesn't he?

[acmavm]

5. The thing that pisses me off is the type of girls he preyed on. Kids who

were disadvantaged, kids is horrible situations who were pretty unlikely to be the brightest bulbs in the pack. I'm talking about the ones he talked into the 'physicals' to check out the quality of their 'eggs'. He is a vicious, rotten piece of subhuman garbage who needs to spend the rest of his life in prison.

Let me clarify something that I left out. For this guy to prey on kids at all is enough for me to personally recommend that this guy be castrated. Not chemically either. Just lop it off with a dull rusty pocket knife. But the two that he preyed on because the were easy victims, defenseless, and not the brightest in the world, well that just makes it all the more horrific.

[pscot]

4. Pathetic

The republican party is sick, sick, sick!

[Crunchy Frog]

6. I know I should no longer be shocked by this sort of thing...

but I still am.

OMG! Just got a look at that guy's picture.


I hope he gets everything that usually comes to child rapists in prison. :puke:

[rug]

7. He deserves another shot.

[IChing]

10. Look at his voting record from Vote Smart...what a "fat bastard"

Background Information
Gender: Male
Family: Married
1 Child.
Birth date: 4/9/1958
Birthplace: Lemmon, SD
Home City: Walker, SD
Religion: Presbyterian

Education:
Diploma, McIntosh High School, 1976.

Professional Experience:
Farmer/Rancher.

Political Experience:
Representative, South Dakota State House of Representatives, 1998-present.
Candidate, South Dakota State Senate, District 28, 2006
Republican County Chairman
South Dakota Republican Executive Board

2002 Based on lifetime voting records on gun issues and the results of a questionnaire sent to all state legislative candidates in 2002, the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund assigned Klaudt a grade of A (with grades ranging from a high of A+ to a low of F).

2003 Based on past voting records and a survey sent out to all state legislative candidates in 2003, South Dakota Right to Life considers the position of Klaudt to be Pro-Life.

http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=25160

[rug]

11. So he was a rancher. I fear for the calves.

[CatWoman]

14. afraid he'll eat them

or rape them too?

:)

[Old and In the Way]

8. It really is rhe Party of Schizophenia.

The public face does not equal the private face of its members. They publicly moralize about sex, but privately, they are a bunch of degenerates.

[Mist]

9. Is there some goddamn requirement of perv-hood to be a Rethug? I guess

the question is the answer. What is it with these people? I'd really like to know.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

12. "maybe I did some things I shouldn't have."

Ya fucking think?

Another sick "famlee valyooz" phoney.

Children. Children godsdammit. Who this creep abused and then threatened in order to keep them silent.

Predatory GOP slime, but I repeat myself. :argh: :mad:

[IChing]

13. nominated and kicked it needs to be put out there

This is the republican party.....they do so well in the Dakotas

[Tucson is On Fire]

15. Great Republican morals.

I wonder who Jesus would rape.

[Cabcere]

17. Welcome to DU, Tucson is On Fire!

:hi: Good to have you here.

[BlooInBloo]

16. It's time for another episode of "What Digby Says"....

... except that it's Tristero.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/sexual-perversion-and-modern.html