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Kentucky Rep. Kills Himself After Being Accused of Sexually Assaulting Teenager

HeadlineDec 14, 2017

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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