Thread by @joesonka

Meiners: This is a really controversial pardon.

Bevin: Which one?

Meiners: The child rapist.

Bevin: Which one?

Bevin: Her hymen was intact. There's no way that girl was raped. She made it up.

Story coming soon on this. Bevin made this argument on WHAS this afternoon.

In my interview with Bevin on Saturday, he also expressed his belief that Micah Schoettle (who he pardoned) did not rape the nine year-old girl, telling me to go ask her mother what really happened: courier-journal.com/story/news/pol…

From my Q&A on his belief Schoettle is innocent:

Bevin: I'm telling you, that was not a...

Me: So did the young woman make it up?

Bevin: Just go get the facts.

Me: Well, I'm asking you what the facts are. Did she make it up?

Bevin: Look into it.

JUST IN: Matt Bevin defends pardon of convicted child rapist in radio interview, says she couldn't have been raped because her hymen is intact: courier-journal.com/story/news/pol…

I talked to former KY medical chief & child abuse expert Dr. George Nichols:

"Bevin clearly doesn’t know medicine and anatomy. I worked for six consecutive governors as chief medical examiner, and fortunately I didn’t have to report to that asshole.” courier-journal.com/story/news/pol…

Yes, my editors left that quote in with a couple of --. 👍

Notable: "Bevin also revealed publicly for the first time the victim's relationship to Schoettle..."

Yes, he did that, too.

Kenton County GOP state Rep. @repkoenig: “If @MattBevin really cares about the conservative causes he fought for for four years, he needs to shut up and go away.”
  courier-journal.com/story/news/pol…

Koenig added: “I would advise any male politician to eliminate the word hymen from their vocabulary.”