Matt Bevin (R) on Thursday defended his decision to pardon a man who was convicted of raping a child, saying the victim’s hymen had not been broken. He was convicted of rape, sodomy and child sex abuse in 2018 and sentenced to 23 years in prison. Both their hymens were intact,” Bevin said of the victim and her sister when asked on WHAS Radio how he could pardon Schoettle. Dr. George Nichols, Kentucky’s former chief medical examiner, told the Louisville Courier Journal that Bevin is wrong about hymens and rape. Schoettle is one of more than 400 people Bevin pardoned on his way out of office after losing Kentucky’s governor’s race in November.

Source: Huffington Post December 20, 2019 03:45 UTC