Mike Huckabee/child molestation
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3120240/New-child-abuse-scandal-hits-Mike-Huckabee-Republican-White-House-hopeful-s-author-molested-girl-11-escaped-charges-statute-limitations.html
New child abuse scandal hits Mike Huckabee: Republican White House hopeful’s co-author molested girl, 11, and escaped charges because of statute of limitations
- John Perry co-authored Huckabee’s 2008 campaign memoirs and is now revealed to have molested girl between ages of 11 and 14
- Police concluded abuse had taken place but they were alerted to it after statute of limitations had kicked in
- Perry tells Daily Mail Online ‘the parties involved were reconciled and restored years ago’ and abuse emerged because of vendetta
- No suggestion Huckabee knew Perry was an abuser but comes after Duggar family revealed to have covered up son Josh’s molestation of sisters
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is facing fresh controversy over links to a child abuser today.
The evangelical Christian politician’s co-author was revealed to have been found by police to have molested a girl when she was just 11, and continued the abuse for three years.
John Perry, a prolific author who helped co-write hit movie The Vow, was not prosecuted because the statute of limitations had passed by the time police became involved,Buzzfeed News reported as it revealed the abuse.
Perry is the second associate of Huckabee to have been revealed as an abuser, after Josh Duggar’s abuse of his sisters was disclosed.
Perry today told Daily Mail Online that ‘the parties involved were reconciled and restored years ago’ and that the investigation had been prompted by an individual who had a ‘vendetta’ against his former church.
Documents uncovered by Buzzfeed News show that Nashville, Tennessee, police investigated Perry in 2012. There is no suggestion Huckabee knew anything of the investigation into his co-author.
Perry had earlier co-authored Huckabee’s memoir about his failed 2008 bid for the GOP nomination.
Perry reportedly copped to the abuse and was subsequently excommunicated from his church. His wife also left him, citing ‘inappropriate marital conduct’ in the divorce proceedings.
Huckabee, a 2016 nominee for the GOP nomination, was already weathering the storm brought on by another child abuse scandal tied to his presidential campaign before Buzzfeed ripped the lid off of court documents implicating his two-time co-author Perry.
An evangelical conservative campaigning to win the votes of Christians nationwide, Huckabee has defended the Duggar family, of 19 Kids and Counting fame after it was revealed that their son Josh, a high-profile conservative activist, had molested several girls in his youth – two of whom were his sisters.
Josh Duggar underwent counseling for his offenses and was never charged in court.
‘No one needs to defend Josh’s actions as a teenager,’ Huckabee said of his actions on Facebook last month, adding, ‘but the fact that he confessed his sins to those he harmed, sought help and has gone forward to live a responsible life as an adult is testament to his authenticity and humility.’
Based on the timeline laid out by Buzzfeed, Perry’s misdeeds did not come to legal authorities’ attention until 2012, though his church became aware of the alleged abuse sometime between 2008 and 2010. It is unclear exactly when they took place.
Perry told Daily Mail Online: ‘I don’t have anything to say for the record, but will tell you that the person behind it has been pursuing a vendetta against his former church for years and this story is one of the means he has used.
‘Having failed there, he has evidently turned his attention elsewhere.
‘I will also tell you that whatever private difficulties there may have been, the parties involved were reconciled and restored years ago, for which I thank God every day.’
His books with Huckabee were released in 2007, Character Is the Issue, and late 2009, Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America.
JOHN PERRY’S STATEMENT TO DAILY MAIL ONLINE
Thank you for getting in touch. I haven’t read the article but have heard about it.
I don’t have anything to say for the record, but will tell you that the person behind it has been pursuing a vendetta against his former church for years and this story is one of the means he has used.
Having failed there, he has evidently turned his attention elsewhere.
I will also tell you that whatever private difficulties there may have been, the parties involved were reconciled and restored years ago, for which I thank God every day.
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