US House candidate Bouchard says he impregnated 14-year-old when he was 18

[brooklynite]

Star Tribune

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. A Wyoming state senator since 2017, Bouchard has risen in prominence since announcing he would challenge Rep. Liz Cheney following her vote to impeach then-President Donald Trump.

"So, 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."

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.

[Sanity Claws]

1. A child fucker who believes in child marriage

Yet he wants to be a candidate for office.
The Republicans are truly scraping the bottom of the barrel. A bunch of low lifes or as Hillary C said, a basket of deplorables.

[quaint]

2. That's why good people don't run for office.

"This is really a message about how dirty politics is," said Bouchard, one of Wyoming's most prominent gun rights advocates. "They'll stop at nothing, man, when you get in the lead and when you're somebody that can't be controlled, you're somebody who works for the people. They'll come after you. That's why good people don't run for office."

(From OP's link)

[moose65]

3. Don't you just love his phrasing?

“Girl gets pregnant.” Yeah. She did it all on her own. 🙄

[Botany]

4. "So, bottom line, it's a story when I was young, two teenagers, girl gets pregnant,"

Ever heard of birth control?

From the link

The two were legally able to get married at the time because Florida law stated that people could marry at any age with a judge's approval if a pregnancy was involved and a parent consented. They got divorced approximately three years later.

Bouchard’s ex-wife killed herself when she was 20, he said. Online records list a woman with her name as being buried at a Jacksonville, Florida, cemetery in 1990. The Star-Tribune is choosing not to identify her.

“She had problems in another relationship. Her dad had committed suicide,” Bouchard said in the video.

After his ex-wife died, Bouchard said he continued to raise the couple's son, whom he briefly references in the video.

“Sadly, he's made some wrong choices in his life," he said. "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. I still love him. Just like when he was born.”

[dawg day]

16. She killed herself a few years later. And he takes no responsibility for that either.

"Bouchard’s ex-wife killed herself when she was 20, he said. Online records list a woman with her name as being buried at a Jacksonville, Florida, cemetery in 1990. The Star-Tribune is choosing not to identify her."

[Demovictory9]

19. omg... how sad

[Probatim]

5. Is he still married to the "girl"?

Or is he really a family values representative who later divorced her for a newer model?

On edit - they divorced and she later killed herself. Just wow.

[samnsara]

6. 18 and she was 14? her parents should have charged him....

[jimfields33]

12. The entire group born in the late 1800's to mid 1950's would be in jail. Parents anyway.

[dawg day]

21. I remember when I was growing up in the 60s-

the stigma about being raped (not being a rapist, however) was so bad that parents would force girls to marry their rapist. In Tennessee, the marriage age was 15, and 14 with parental permission, and if a man married his rape victim, he couldn't be charged.

Imagine the horror of that.

[uponit7771]

7. Does statutory rape hate a statue of limitation?

[Cuthbert Allgood]

8. Why do people use Romeo and Juliet things in anyway postively.

Does he not remember they both killed themselves at the end after knowing each other for a grand total of THREE days?

[dalton99a]

9. Creepy sick fuck

[exboyfil]

10. I had a co-worker who dated a girl 4 years younger ( and eventually married her)

They dated when they were in high school. I always find it quite weird even though I did marry a girl three years and three months younger. The difference was she was 19 when I met her. I did have to correct a misperception when the former church youth director said I married one of the youth (I was a high school youth leader for awhile). If I had gone to the church a year earlier I would never have married her. She was in college when we first met.

[MineralMan]

11. The mother of his child committed suicide at age 20.

Many teenagers are sexually active. However, for an 18-year-old to get a 14-year-old pregnant is abhorrent. He was old enough to know better. Yes, he married the girl when she was 15, but that does not excuse his behavior when he was 18 in any way. Apparently, things did not work out well in the end.

I dated a 14-year-old girl when I was 16. Even then, I knew better than to have sex with her. I knew what caused pregnancy, so we didn't do what causes pregnancy. So did that asshole know, but he went ahead and got a 14-year-old pregnant.

Now, he's whining because the truth is out and it might hurt his chances in an election. Well, Mr. Republican dude, the girl you knocked up ended up killing herself just a few years later, while married to your sorry ass. How are you not too ashamed to run for office, you vile person?

You should end your candidacy forthwith. You are not someone who should hold any elected office.

[exboyfil]

15. The weird thing I never considered dating girls in lower grades

Given I was 17 when I started college, I would not have been much holder. My now wife was probably the only girl/woman younger than me that I ever dated.

[MineralMan]

17. In my small town high school, back in the early 60s,

there was a lot of interclass dating. Generally, the boys dated girls from any of the four classes at high school. Girls, on the other hand, preferred to date boys from their own class or from older classes. That was just the pattern there and at that time. In my four years in high school, I dated girls from my own class and from classes below mine.

Since there was zero access to contraceptive methods at the time for people under 21 in California, few high school kids had actual sexual intercourse. Which is not to say that they weren't sexually active, of course. Still, in my high school class of 104, I know of six girls who got pregnant while in high school. There might have been others, of course, but those were the ones I knew about.

California laws prohibited the sale of condoms to any single person under the age of 21, and the only place they could be purchased was at the pharmacy counter. In that small town, there was only one pharmacy, and everyone knew just about everyone in that town, so it was really impossible. So, the only safe sex was something other than intercourse. Because of that, most high school couples avoided that risky behavior. I know I did. I can't imagine my parents' reaction had I been compelled to reveal that my girlfriend was pregnant. Nope. Didn't do that.

[StevieM]

18. Sadly, some of those six girls who got pregnant, and others you didn't know about, were forced

to accept a terrible resolution to their situation. This was the Baby Scoop Era. Countless women and girls lost their children to a coerced adoption.

[MineralMan]

20. Very true. In my class, though, I know that three of the girls married their boyfriends.

I keep up with the class, and also know that all three are still married to the same person. I don't know about the other three, nor about the girls who suddenly disappeared and went to "stay with their aunt."

Worse, there was no sex education in schools at that time, and many parents didn't offer much information, either. So, it was more or less a "learn by doing" process. Fortunately, I did get a thorough sex education from my parents and books, so I knew what to avoid.

A year after I graduated from high school, the birth control pill became available, although it was difficult for girls to get while still in high school at the time. At the college I attended, though, the student health center was quick to prescribe "the pill" and had a huge fish bowl full of condoms in the waiting area.

[JohnSJ]

13. Sounds like the character Dylan, in the HBO, Mare of Easttown

A real jackass

[jcgoldie]

14. "like the romeo and juliet story"

uhmm... no.

[dawg day]

22. Well, it might have been more like R and J--

if he had also killed himself.

But men like this don't feel guilt or responsibility, so he just went merrily on, and thinks he's actually deserving of the US Congress.