Matt Bevin defended his controversial pardon of a man who was convicted of raping a child, saying there was no physical evidence of an assault. Rob Sanders, the prosecutor who put Schoettle away, called the pardon a “completely classless move.”Bevin defended the Schoettle pardon in a radio interview Thursday, saying there was no physical evidence of rape in the case. Several have stirred controversy, including his pardon of Patrick Baker, a man convicted of homicide and other crimes whose family held a fundraiser for Bevin last year. Kentucky’s former chief medical examiner Dr. George Nichols criticized Bevin’s comments on the Schoettle pardon in an interview with the Courier Journal, saying the statements were factually inaccurate. In defending the pardon, the former governor also said another child who was said to be present during the alleged assaults denied they took place.

Source: thestar December 20, 2019 16:43 UTC