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GOP challenger to Cheney says he impregnated 14-year-old when he was 18: 'It's like the Romeo and Ju
GOP challenger to Cheney says he impregnated 14-year-old when he was 18: ‘It’s like the Romeo and Juliet story’
Wyoming state Sen. Anthony Bouchard, a Republican who has announced his intention to challenge Rep. Liz Cheney (R) for her House seat, acknowledged Thursday that he had impregnated a 14-year-old and had a relationship with her when he was 18, comparing the teen intimacy to Shakespeare’s tragedy “Romeo and Juliet.”
Bouchard first acknowledged that he impregnated a girl when he was 18 in a Facebook Live video, but did not initially disclose her age. He confirmed to the Casper Star-Tribune that the girl was 14 and the couple, who were both living in Florida, later married when she was 15 and he was 19.
The couple divorced after three years of marriage. Then, about two years later, the woman killed herself when she was 20, Bouchard said to the Star-Tribune. The paper found that a woman had been buried in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1990. The lawmaker said the woman “had problems in another relationship.”
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Bouchard choked back tears in mentioning the couple’s son, whom he said he continued to raise after the woman died. He noted that “he’s made some wrong choices” and that “he’s almost become my estranged son.”
“Some of the things that he’s got going on his life, I certainly don’t approve of them. But I’m not going to abandon him,” he said in the video. “I still love him. Just like when he was born.”
Wyoming state Sen. Anthony Bouchard, a Republican who has announced his intention to challenge Rep. Liz Cheney (R) for her House seat, acknowledged Thursday that he had impregnated a 14-year-old and had a relationship with her when he was 18, comparing the teen intimacy to Shakespeare’s tragedy “Romeo and Juliet.”
Bouchard first acknowledged that he impregnated a girl when he was 18 in a Facebook Live video, but did not initially disclose her age. He confirmed to the Casper Star-Tribune that the girl was 14 and the couple, who were both living in Florida, later married when she was 15 and he was 19.
The couple divorced after three years of marriage. Then, about two years later, the woman killed herself when she was 20, Bouchard said to the Star-Tribune. The paper found that a woman had been buried in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1990. The lawmaker said the woman “had problems in another relationship.”
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Bouchard choked back tears in mentioning the couple’s son, whom he said he continued to raise after the woman died. He noted that “he’s made some wrong choices” and that “he’s almost become my estranged son.”
“Some of the things that he’s got going on his life, I certainly don’t approve of them. But I’m not going to abandon him,” he said in the video. “I still love him. Just like when he was born.”
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