Pervert ex-mayor claims four-year-old girl ‘initiated sex and was a willing participant’
Richard Keenan admitted to raping and molesting a child over a three-year period
AN EX-MAYOR who admitted he raped and molested a four-year-old girl claims the youngster seduced HIM, it has been reported.
Monster Richard Keenan, the mayor of the town of Hubbard in Ohio in 2010 and 2011, admitted to the sickening crimes which took place over three years, according to court documents.
Now he has been indicted on eight counts of rape, 12 of attempted rape and gross sexual imposition.
But Keenan told a social worker he blamed the victim for initiating the acts and called her a “willing participant”, according to court documents seen by the .
The files also state: "He was feeling suicidal because he had been molesting the child victim for approximately the past two years."
A single rape conviction carries a sentence of up to life in prison in the state.
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Assistant Prosecutor Gabriel Wildman, claims the 65-year-old made the admissions to his wife, a pastor, a social worker and his brother and sister-in-law.
When the wife, Diana, was told about the alleged sex attacks, she confronted him, and it is claimed he told her: “I did it.”
The filing states Keenan also admitted sexual abuse during “group discussions” while he was in the ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital psychiatric ward.
Keenan remains free on $75,000 bond before his trial starts next April.
When he was first sworn into office, the railroad inspector and former probation officer told the local paper: “I’m a Christian. Dedicating my life to Jesus has changed my life.”