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Congressman accused of sending 'sick' emails to 16 year old boy
Larry Womack
Published: Thursday September 28, 2006
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A Congressman has been accused of sending questionable emails to a sixteen-year old Capitol page, RAW STORY has learned.
Reports circulated on the Internet earlier this week, indicated that in private emails, Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) had requested photographs of the page, asked what he wanted for his birthday, and inquired about his age. The emails may be viewed below.
A subsequent investigation by RAW STORY discovered that the addresses on the emails were indeed those of Foley and a now-seventeen year old boy, who forwarded them to a fellow staffer. There is no overtly sexual communication in Foley's emails, and the age of consent in Washington, DC is sixteen.
Our investigation also uncovered a MySpace profile attached to the congressman's personal address, containing very little information.
RAW STORY spoke with several sources who confirmed that they felt Foley was unusually friendly with young hill pages, but failed to uncover anything of a more serious nature.
Foley's office has told ABC News that it is their policy to keep pictures of former interns, so that they could be remembered by anyone looking to recommend one. However, ABC also reports that the page did not work in Foley's office.
His office also contended that the Congressman is only guilty of being overly-friendly, and has categorized it as part of an opponent's "smear campaign."
The popular blog Wonkette today retracted an earlier post on the subject, stating that they should have been more skeptical of his opponent, and less skeptical of the Congressman.
Foley has long marketed himself as a protector of children from sexual predation. In 2003, he became an outspoken critic of a summer nudist camp for children. An amendment by Foley to change federal sex offender laws became part of the Adam Walsh Child Safety and Protection Act of 2006. |
