Your 2019 Republican Party

In his final days in office, former Republican Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin issued hundreds of pardons including convicted murderers and rapists.

Still, Bevin enraged critics when he said during a radio interview that he pardoned a child rapist partly because the hymen of the 9-year-old victim was still intact.

When Terry Meiners asked Bevin about the pardon, the former governor focused on the lack of evidence from physical examinations of the victim and her sister.

"Both their hymens were intact," Bevin said. "This is perhaps more specific than people would want, but trust me, if you had been repeatedly sexually violated as a small child by an adult, there are going to be repercussions of that physically and medically."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/20/us/former-kentucky-governor-matt-bevin-ch...