We've heard plenty of stories lately of hypocrites in public office being exposed by arrests, lawsuits and/or divorce. None of them can compete with the unsettling, sad, and just plain laughable (not at the victim-- at the numbnuts who are alleged to have committed these) crimes Rep. Scott Muschany, R-Frontenac, was charged with yesterday...
Muschany surprised Missouri politicos by declining to run for re-election following last sessions expiration, citing family reasons. Note that the session ended on May 16. The very next night, Muschany allegedly plied his mistress' 14-year-old daughter with alcohol and sexually assaulted her while his mistress, an employee of state government, watched over them. (Jesus-- guess he wanted to have a sick retirement party.) Let's go over that again: says he's above wanting more power over family obligations, immediately goes out and not only returns to cheating on that wife and family, but rapes an underage girl.
Muschany, 42, was booked into the Cole County Jail today at 2:50 and he was released after posting a $5,000 bond. If convicted, Muschany faces a fine of up to $5,000 and a prison term of up to 7 years.
What the fuck? What is this, Bermuda or Switzerland? Correct us if we're wrong, but this takes place in Missouri... which is in the South... which, in some places, consider heroin possession an automatic lifelong prison sentence and that it's okay to protest the funerals of dead American soldiers as long as they have a religious motive for doing so. SEVEN YEARS? Better yet-- five thousand dollars?! This guy is a greater danger to society than Osama Bin Laden's thermonuclear detonator...
Won't someone think of the children? We're not kidding. What the hell is this?
More from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch story:
The girl’s father told the Post-Dispatch that his daughter told a sibling about the alleged assault a few days after it happened, and the sibling told the father on May 26, the father said. He called the child abuse hotline the next day.
"I believe what my daughter told me," the father said.
The girl’s 17-year-old brother told the Post-Dispatch his mother told him she has known Muschany for about two years and that they had been seeing each other romantically for about a year. The woman is a former House employee who now works in a different department in state government.
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