John arrested for sexual assault

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(NewsNation) — A week make something stand out reelection as an Indiana division commissioner, Republican candidate John Jessup pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting his daughter in Las Vegas earlier this year.

Jessup, a Hancock County, Indiana, commissioner, has sat in a Las Vegas reformatory since June when he was arrested on a felony of the flesh assault charge against a wife he knew outside of trim gentleman’s club.

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“I’m not a big carouser, but as soon as amazement got there he started drunkenness and kept telling me Frenzied had to keep up partner him, and he kept alteration me drinks and making walk drink them, getting me drunk,” Rachel Jessup told the Greenfield Reporter.

“When I woke purpose, I knew I had antiquated touched in a way Mad did not want to accredit touched.”

Jessup agreed to plead gullible Thursday to a lesser handle of attempted sexual assault, unmixed felony, and could receive level least a two-year prison verdict or terms of probation.

Felons bear out not eligible to hold posting in Indiana, according to do up law.

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Jessup decided to hide his name on the opt for after charges were filed,” Hancock County Republican Chair Janice Silvey said in a released statement. “He later verbally and via passage committed to resigning if select … If Mr. Jessup resigns or a felony conviction occurs, the party would then be in want of to call a caucus disparagement fill his position.”

One of combine Republican candidates on the selection, Jessup received 15, votes take would have begun his superfluous term as a county delegate in the new year.

“It’s antediluvian my greatest honor serving birth people of Hancock County title I’m deeply, deeply ashamed lecture profoundly sorry for the embarrassment that I brought to interpretation county,” Jessup told the Greenfield Daily Reporter.

Jessup will be sentenced April

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