LOUISVILLE (KY)
Louisville Courier Journal
December 11, 2017
By Thomas Novelly
Another Frankfort legislator is being asked to step down amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
Dan Johnson, a preacher and Republican representative from Bullitt County, was accused of sexually abusing a member of his Fern Creek church, Heart of Fire, when she was 17. The woman says Johnson molested her after a New Year’s party in 2012, according to a report published Monday by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting.
Johnson was not available for comment at his office Monday, and he did not return a phone call left at his home. Courier Journal is not naming the woman because she says she was a victim of sexual abuse.
Officials from both sides of the aisle are calling on Johnson to step down.
“Following today’s extensively sourced and documented story from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, we once again find ourselves in a position where we must call for him to resign, this time, from the Kentucky General Assembly,” Mac Brown, the chairman of the Republican Party of Kentucky, said in a statement.
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