{"id":731,"date":"2018-10-30T11:24:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2018-10-30T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T16:24:10","slug":"st-clair-county-women-said-brendan-kelly-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"When St. Clair County Women Said, &#8220;Me Too,&#8221; Brendan Kelly Said, &#8220;So What?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Kelly\u2019s abysmal record of protecting victims of sexual assault was exposed yet again this week, as KSDK detailed the 2017 case of a St. Clair County sheriff\u2019s deputy who twice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksdk.com\/article\/news\/investigations\/woman-still-seeking-justice-after-she-said-a-deputy-raped-her-twice\/63-609404201\">raped a woman<\/a> in Cahokia. When Brendan Kelly had the opportunity to deliver justice for the victim, he instead issued two &#8220;official misconduct&#8221; charges that carry an embarrassing sentence of two to five years.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTime after time, Brendan Kelly has proven that he can\u2019t be trusted to protect victims of sexual assault,\u201d <\/em><strong>said Dustin Rhodes, campaign manager for Mike Bost.<\/strong> <em>&#8220;This is just another example of Mr. Kelly letting a violent predator off with a slap on the wrist. He&#8217;s failed to do his job, but now he wants a promotion. When Southern Illinois women said, &#8216;Me too,\u2019 Brendan Kelly said, \u2018So what?\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Kelly\u2019s abysmal record of protecting victims of sexual assault was exposed yet again this week, as KSDK detailed the 2017 case of a St. Clair County sheriff\u2019s deputy who twice raped a woman in Cahokia. When Brendan Kelly had the opportunity to deliver justice for the victim, he instead issued two &#8220;official misconduct&#8221; charges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}