Matt Bevin defends pardon of convicted child rapist in radio interview

[brooklynite]

Source: Louisville Courier-Journal

Former Gov. Matt Bevin on Thursday defended his controversial last-minute pardon of a man convicted of raping a 9-year-old, saying there was no physical evidence of her abuse.

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"There was zero evidence," Bevin said.

Bevin also revealed publicly for the first time the victim's relationship to Schoettle and said that the victim's sister was present during the alleged assaults. The sister has denied the assaults took place, Bevin said.

"Both their hymens were intact. This is perhaps more specific than people would want, but trust me. If you have been repeatedly sexually violated as a small child by an adult, there are going to be repercussions of that physically and medically," Bevin said.

Read more: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/19/matt-bevin-defends-child-rape-pardon-radio-interview/2704244001/

[hibbing]

1. Uh..okay Dr. Bevin n/t

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Redeeming quality needed for the Trump Administration.

[gay texan]

3. um dude....

ANY forcible sexual act is FUCKING RAPE!!!!!

[Mrs. Overall]

4. In addition to the child rapist, he also pardoned a man who beheaded a woman as well as other

criminals convicted of murder and rape.

[Newest Reality]

5. It is fitting!

Essentially, he pardons people who he identifies with.

That's called the shadow and his is extremely hideous. Judging by his monomaniacal image of himself, that shadow has to be ten-times uglier than the Picture of Dorian Gray and in HD and 3D. Even H.R. Giger doesn't come close to depicting anything like that.

[dewsgirl]

6. The child was sodomized.

[NCjack]

7. Good candidate for U.S. Surgeon General. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. "Which one, though?" Dear God, this is even more sickening that I thought

But Schoettle is only one of the men convicted of child sexual abuse that Bevin pardoned. In fact, he was initially confused when his interviewer brought up the subject of a child rape case.

“Which one, though? Because there were a couple of people that were accused of that whose sentences I commuted.”

He also freed Dayton Jones, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy at a party; the boy sustained severe internal injuries. And he pardoned Paul Donel Hurt, who had been convicted of sexually abusing his 6-year-old stepdaughter.

In Hurt’s case, Bevin cited the fact that in 2015, Hurt’s stepdaughter, whose name has not been made public, recanted her allegations. However, several judges declined to set aside Hurt’s conviction, the Courier-Journal reported, in part because of the role of Jefferson Circuit Judge Stephen Mershon in the recantation. Mershon presided over Hurt’s original conviction in 2001, but later began corresponding with Hurt and also contacted the stepdaughter.

In 2016, one judge said that Mershon had “altered” the stepdaughter’s memory and used “judicial coercion and intimidation” to get her to recant. After Hurt’s pardon, Mershon was the one to pick him up from prison.

https://www.vox.com/2019/12/20/21030913/matt-bevin-pardons-former-kentucky-governor-schoettle

[SKKY]

9. So, as long as you don't break the Hymen, it isn't rape???

Is this guy for real?