Ted Klaudt, a former Republican state law maker from South Dakota who served eight years in the state House from 1999 to 2006 was convicted on four counts of second degree rape.
The story is here.
The first woman reported that Ted performed ten examinations on her to determine if her eggs were healthy enough to sell. The second reported she asked him to stop and he wouldn't.
He is facing more charges next week.
Klaudt's attorney Tim Rensch didn't deny during the trial that his client gave the girls physical examinations or that they were part of a scheme by which the girls were told they could make thousands of dollars for selling their reproductive eggs.
But he urged jurors to acquit his client, arguing that both girls were at least 16 years old when the exams took place — putting them above the age of consent in South Dakota — and that they both consented to the exams.
"This was a despicable, terrible scheme he was perpetrating on these girls, but it was not forcible rape," Rensch said during his closing arguments.
State prosecutor Patricia DeVaney argued that Klaudt raped the young women.
"To say the girls consented to what was done to them is absolutely preposterous," DeVaney told the jury in closing arguments. "How can you exercise your free will if you are being lied to and manipulated throughout the whole thing?"
Oh, and the obligatory hypocritical part is here.
Keep your children away from Republicans. I can't stress that enough.