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   From: amused@glaad.org   
      
   A shocking tale of pedophilia is emerging in Seattle,   
   Washington. Mayor Ed Murray, 61, is accused of raping teenage   
   boys since the 1980s. A lawsuit was filed this week against   
   Murray where a victim stated that the mayor first sexually   
   assaulted him when he was just 15 and a high school dropout. The   
   man, now 46, claimed that the mayor paid him $10 to $20 for each   
   encounter that went on several times as he struggled with a   
   crack addiction.   
      
   The victim only identified by the initials D.H. in court filings   
   stated to the Seattle Times, “I have been dealing with this for   
   over 30 years,” and came forward recently as part of his healing   
   process. But the allegations are not new against Mayor Murray.   
   Two other men have also come forward with the same allegations   
   and one even went to the police when he was a teen. The men,   
   identified as Jeff Simpson and Lloyd Anderson, accused Murray of   
   abusing them in the 1980s and paying them for sex and said   
   they’d be willing to testify about it. Simpson, 49, said Murray   
   — who he thought of as a father — raped him over several years,   
   starting at age 13, and in later years, paid him.   
      
   ‘I would really like for him to admit it and to take   
   responsibility,” Simpson told media recently. In 1984, one of   
   the victims talked to a social worker and to a detective about   
   the abuse. At that time, charges of a felony third-degree sodomy   
   charge developed but the prosecutors declined to bring the case   
   forward. Because the assault occurred so long ago, all records   
   from that era have more than likely been destroyed. Murray is   
   running for re-election and his camp claims that the lawsuit is   
   politically motivated.   
      
   Murray’s personal spokesman Jeff Reading stated, “These false   
   accusations are intended to damage a prominent elected official   
   who has been a defender of vulnerable populations for decades.   
   It is not a coincidence that this shakedown effort comes within   
   weeks of the campaign filing deadline. These unsubstantiated   
   assertions, dating back three decades, are categorically false.”   
      
   Reading went on to say in a statement “The two older accusations   
   were promoted by extreme right-wing anti-gay activists in the   
   midst of the marriage equality campaign and were thoroughly   
   investigated and dismissed by both law enforcement authorities   
   and the media.”   
      
   The age of legal consent in Washington is 16; having sex with   
   anyone younger is considered rape of a child under state law.   
   The statute of limitations on any crime would have expired.   
      
   http://rollingout.com/2017/04/07/seattle-mayor-accused-raping-   
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