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This dude is a legend, lol.
Backstory: In 2013, when Joe Morrissey was 56 years old and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, he hired 17-year-old Myrna Pride to work as an intern in his law office. They began a sexual relationship that they both repeatedly denied, despite prosecutors possessing many of their alleged texts and sexting evidence.
Virginia statutory rape law is violated "when a person has consensual sexual intercourse with an individual under age 18."
Morrissey was allowed to plead guilty to the delinquency of a minor in 2014, with additional charges of indecent liberties with a minor, possession and distribution of child pornography and electric solicitation of a minor. At the time of his conviction, Pride was already pregnant with their first child. He served three months in jail.
In 2019, Morrissey won a Virginia Senate seat.