MATT BEVIN: "Her hymen was intact. There's no way that girl was raped. She made it up."
The former governor of Kentucky, Matt Bevin, is now defending his utterly disgusting pardon of a convicted child rapist (mugshot above) by claiming the rapist's nine year old victim couldn't have been raped because the girl "had an intact hymen," as Jessica Valenti pointed out today.
Just when you really honest to God think these men cannot get any worse.
Meiners: This is a really controversial pardon.
Bevin: Which one?
Meiners: The child rapist.
Bevin: Which one?
— Joe Sonka ? (@joesonka) December 19, 2019
Bevin: Her hymen was intact. There's no way that girl was raped. She made it up.
— Joe Sonka ? (@joesonka) December 19, 2019
In my interview with Bevin on Saturday, he also expressed his belief that Micah Schoettle (who he pardoned) did not rape the nine year-old girl, telling me to go ask her mother what really happened: https://t.co/s2xEzC9OZh
— Joe Sonka ? (@joesonka) December 19, 2019
From my Q&A on his belief Schoettle is innocent:
Bevin: I'm telling you, that was not a…
Me: So did the young woman make it up?
Bevin: Just go get the facts.
Me: Well, I'm asking you what the facts are. Did she make it up?
Bevin: Look into it.
— Joe Sonka ? (@joesonka) December 20, 2019
Really looking forward to hearing how #metoo has "over corrected"
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) December 20, 2019
Outside of how disgusting this comment is, it's just another reminder of what it means for girls and women to have men who don't understand anything about our bodies legislating them
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) December 20, 2019
