Former state Rep. Keith Farnham, who is awaiting sentencing on child pornography charges, ran away from home as a child to escape sexual abuse and was later raped by a man who took him in off the streets of New York, his lawyer said in a court filing Thursday.
Farnham, 67, an Elgin Democrat, faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison after pleading guilty to online trading of thousands of images and videos of child pornography depicting victims as young as toddlers. Federal sentencing guidelines call for up to about 15 years behind bars.
In seeking the minimum sentence, Farnham's attorney, Terry Ekl, detailed for the first time the former legislator's traumatic upbringing in a small town in Maine, where he was allegedly sexually abused between the ages of 6 and 10 by a boy older than him.
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4 comments:
Oh Ok then. No problem, we will give you a free pass now.
Funny how everyone that gets caught breaking the law drops the "I was sexually abused as a child card."
When I went through my divorce my ex claimed I "mentally abused her." It's a sad country that we now live in.
Homosexuality is a learned perversion.
It is the New World we live in. Everyone has a damn excuse for what they did of just admitting it and dealing with it. Makes me sick to be in this world anymore. People excuses and the Lies from people anymore.
3:24 So is being a Democrat!
He is both. Like most.
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