Wyoming State Senator and U.S. House candidate Anthony Bouchard, who is running a primary challenge against incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), disclosed
Wyoming State Senator and U.S. House candidate Anthony Bouchard, who is running a primary challenge against incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), disclosed late Thursday that he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18 years old and living in Florida, according to The Casper Star-Tribune. Bouchard came forward about the pregnancy in a Facebook Live video on Thursday — purportedly in an effort to get ahead of the story — but did not mention how old the girl was when the pregnancy happened. Bouchard did say, however, “she was a little younger than me so it’s like the Romeo and Juliet story.” The two married when she was 15 years old, with permission from the girl’s mother, and were together for about three years before they divorced, Bouchard told the Star Tribune in an interview after the Facebook video was posted. Two years later, when his ex-wife was 20-years-old, she killed herself. In the Facebook video, titled “Senator Bouchard Takes On The Fake News Media,” the state senator said his political opponents were going back “almost forty years” to dig up “something that happened in my youth.
