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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Fox News' Hemmer latest to advance made-up charge that Jennings knew of "statutory rape" case and "never reported it" | Media Matters for America


Fox News' Hemmer latest to advance made-up charge that Jennings knew of "statutory rape" case and "never reported it" Media Matters for America:

"Fox News' Bill Hemmer continued his network's attacks on Department of Education official Kevin Jennings by claiming that Jennings knew of a 'statutory rape' case involving a student but 'never reported it.' However, Hemmer ignored that Jennings' attorney wrote in a 2004 letter that the student was 16 years old, which Jennings' book appears to support, and that 16 is -- and was at the time -- the legal age of consent in Massachusetts."