Arizona state representative resigns after it is revealed he was arrested in 1983 for allegedly paying two boys $10 each to have sex with him
- Republican State Rep David Stringer was accused of raping the two teenagers
- Both of the boys were under the age of 15 and one had a developmental disability
- One of the boys told police that Stringer, who was 35 or 36 at the time, had asked them to come over to his apartment to have sex after meeting them in a park
- Told investigators he went back to Stringer's apartment at least 10 more times to perform oral sex or penetrative sex
- Stringer accepted a plea deal for two petty offenses and the case was expunged
- But police report was uncovered during an ethics investigation into the charges
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Published: 16:09 EDT, 31 March 2019 | Updated: 18:00 EDT, 31 March 2019
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An Arizona lawmaker has resigned after it was revealed he was arrested 35 years ago for allegedly paying two boys $10 to have sex with him.
Republican State Rep David Stringer was accused of raping the two teens after meeting them in a Baltimore park in 1983.
One of the boys told police that Stringer, who was 35 or 36 at the time, had asked the boys to come over to his apartment to have sex.
Both of the boys were under the age of 15 and one had a developmental disability, according to an uncovered report from the Baltimore Police Department.
Stringer has strongly denied the allegations, and said they have 'no basis in fact.'
Republican State Rep David Stringer has resigned after it was revealed he was arrested 35 years ago for allegedly paying two boys $10 to have sex with him
According to the report, Stringer allegedly paid the boys $10 each after they had oral sex for the first time.
One of the boys told police he went back to Stringer's apartment at least 10 more times to perform oral sex or penetrative sex.
The report was uncovered following an ethics investigation into the sex-crime charges and released by the Arizona House of Representatives on Friday.
Stringer's case was expunged after he accepted a plea deal for two fourth-degree petty offenses and was sentenced to five years of supervised probation, according to
The Arizona Republic.
He was also required to seek admission to a treatment clinic that appears to be for sex offenders, the newspaper said.
Stringer took to Facebook at 3am on Saturday to profess his innocence against what he claimed were 'sensationalized allegations' that had 'no basis in fact'.
He said he was 'forced' to resign after he was confronted with the police report by House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who called the allegations 'absolutely appalling and sickening'.
Both of the boys were under the age of 15 and one had a developmental disability, according to an uncovered report from the Baltimore Police Department (pictured)
One of the boys told police that Stringer, who was 35 or 36 at the time, had asked the boys to come over to his apartment to have sex. Stringer allegedly paid both boys $10 afterwards
The report was uncovered following an ethics investigation into the sex-crime charges and released by the Arizona House of Representatives on Friday
Stringer said he took the plea deal 35 years ago because a trial seemed too risky.
He wrote: 'My lawyer thought we had an excellent chance of winning, but even a 90 percent chance of winning meant a 10 percent chance of losing, and that meant losing everything I had and everything I imagined I might ever have.
'35 years later, political opponents have dug those charges back up to drive me from politics because they disagree with my views.'
Stringer claimed that the charges he faced in 1983 are 'as false today as they were 35 years ago'.
Stringer's case was expunged after he accepted a plea deal for two fourth-degree petty offenses and was sentenced to five years of supervised probation
Stringer took to Facebook at 3am on Saturday to profess his innocence against what he claimed were 'sensationalized allegations' that had 'no basis in fact'
'I had forgotten exactly how sharp the gut-punch sensation was when I first heard about them way back then,' he wrote.
'But seeing them splashed around in headlines today by people celebrating them takes me back to the same feelings I had then.'
Stringer's resignation comes just four months after he resigned as chair of the Arizona House Sentencing and Recidivism Reform Committee after he was recorded telling a group of college students that black people 'don't blend in'.
The politician first faced calls to resign from Republican Gov Doug Ducey and the state Republican Party chairman in June after he said that immigration had made integrating schools impossible.
'Sixty percent of public school children in the state of Arizona today are minorities,' he said in a video clip from a political event made public. 'That complicates racial integration because there aren't enough white kids to go around.'
During the event Stringer also claimed that immigration is 'politically destabilizing' and 'represents an existential threat to the United States.'
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