{"id":69176,"date":"2017-03-20T08:47:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T12:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69176"},"modified":"2017-03-20T09:14:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T13:14:22","slug":"former-ohio-mayor-admints-to-raping-a-4-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69176","title":{"rendered":"Former NE Ohio Mayor admits to raping a 4 year old; Hubbard Democrat was free until sentencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>September 2016: Former Ohio Mayor, 66, Pleads Guilty to Raping 4 Year Old<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Keenan-Pedophilia-563x350.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69181\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Keenan-Pedophilia-563x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Keenan-Pedophilia-563x350.jpg 563w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Keenan-Pedophilia-563x350-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>victuruslibertas.com<\/p>\n<p>Former Hubbard mayor, Richard Keenan, 66, plead guilty to eight rape charges and 12 lesser charges last week, \u00a0for raping and molesting a child over a three-year period, starting when she was only 4 years old, according to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindy.com\/news\/2017\/mar\/18\/ex-hubbard-mayor-pleads-guilty-to--rape-\/?mobile\" target=\"_blank\">Vindy.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Former mayor of Hubbard, Ohio (D), Richard Keenan, has plead guilty\u00a0in court to raping a young child, as President Trump\u2019s vow to the people to stop what he called \u201chuman trafficking\u201d pushes further investigations into the\u00a0\u00a0elite pedophile ring that has infiltrated Washington D.C. \u00a0 This is an evil and sick epidemic that encompasses politics and elites nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, the abuse began as early as September 2013 when the victim, whom Keenan knew, was just 4 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindy.com\/news\/2016\/sep\/13\/prosecutor-ex-mayor-of-hubbard-admitted-\/\" target=\"_blank\">Youngstown Vindicator<\/a><\/strong> reports that according to court documents, the victim told Keenan\u2019s wife about the sexual abuse that began when she was 4-years-old and lasted for three years.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p>When Keenan\u2019s wife confronted him about the allegations, he responded, \u201cI did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat mayor also confessed to the allegations to his pastor, a social worker and his brother and sister-in-law, according to documents filed by the assistant prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>Keenan admitted himself into a psychiatric facility after the admissions because he said he was feeling suicidal.<\/p>\n<p>Filings obtained by the Youngstown Vindicator go into extensive detail about his purported admissions during group discussions at the psychiatric ward. He allegedly said he blamed the victim for initiating the acts and said she was a \u201cwilling participant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His agreed-upon sentence calls for him to go to prison for life with parole eligibility after 10 years. He will be sentenced in several weeks, after the county adult probation department conducts a background investigation. \u00a0He will remain free on $75,000 bond until his sentencing hearing in several weeks, according to various sources. \u00a0His trial is set for April 24th.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur position is it\u2019s a life sentence. It gives the victim some closure, and it obviously keeps this young child from having to testify,\u201d Gabe Wildman, assistant prosecutor said. \u00a0\u201cNot bringing her in here to have to testify in the small courtroom with this man in there, as well.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wkrn.com\/2017\/03\/18\/former-northeast-ohio-mayor-admits-to-raping-4-year-old\/\" target=\"_blank\">WKRN<\/a><\/strong> reports that Keenan was visibly shaken Friday as he changed his plea to guilty on 20 counts of sex crimes, including eight counts of rape. Keenan agreed to a life sentence with the eligibility of parole after ten years.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/victuruslibertas.com\/2017\/03\/former-ohio-mayor-pleads-guilty-to-raping-4-year-old\/\">http:\/\/victuruslibertas.com\/2017\/03\/former-ohio-mayor-pleads-guilty-to-raping-4-year-old\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 2016: Former Ohio Mayor, 66, Pleads Guilty to Raping 4 Year Old<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}