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December 14, 2017

Kentucky Rep. Kills Himself After Being Accused of Sexually Assaulting Teenager
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In Kentucky, Republican state Representative Dan Johnson was found dead
from an apparent suicide, only two days after the Kentucky Center for
Investigative Reporting published an exposé about him molesting a
17-year-old girl who was a member of his church. According to the
exposé, in 2013 Johnson woke up his daughter's friend while the girls
were having a sleepover and then sexually assaulted the teenager,
touching her breasts and forcing his fingers into her vagina. The girl
wrote to Johnson in a Facebook message after the attack, "What you did
was beyond mean, it was evil." Kentucky state Representative Dan
Johnson's body was found Wednesday with a single gunshot wound to his
head.


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