Biff_Poindexter
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US House candidate Bouchard says he impregnated 14-year-old when he was 18
Anthony Bouchard says he went public with the information after learning that people were investigating the relationship in opposition to his candidacy against Rep. Liz Cheney.
trib.com
"U.S. House candidate Anthony Bouchard had a relationship with and impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18, he told the Star-Tribune late Thursday, hours after he disclosed the relationship in a Facebook Live video to his supporters. Bouchard, who did not specify the girl's age in the video, said he went public with the information to get ahead of the story after learning that people were investigating it in opposition to his candidacy.
Bouchard told the Star-Tribune he married the girl when she was 15 and he was 19. At the time, they were both living in Florida. "A lot of pressure. Pressure to abort a baby. I got to tell you. I wasn't going to do it, and neither was she," he said. "And there was pressure to have her banished from their family. Just pressure. Pressure to go hide somewhere -- bottom line, it's a story when I was young, two teenagers, girl gets pregnant," he said in the Facebook Live video. "You've heard those stories before. She was a little younger than me, so it's like the Romeo and Juliet story."
Now people who were teenagers themselves or have teenage children know that most of them will have sex and potentially get pregnant; and sometimes the girls getting pregnant will be 12, 13 or 14 yrs old....For Democrats and Cheney to attack a man for having been a normal teenage boy is the lowest of the low and proves they have no idea what family values are. Kudos to him for coming out and being open about it -- he tried to marry her and do the right thing but it just didn't work out....but he raised the kid and he did a great job in doing so; (even tho his son made some bad choices and went down the wrong road and they are both nearly estranged)... bottom line is; Bouchard should be respected.