Kansas Rep. Mark Samsel charged with battery after physical altercation with student

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This story is 100 million times more insane than the headline suggests.

Kansas Rep. Mark Samsel charged with battery after physical altercation with student
In videos, Samsel, a substitute teacher, is shown talking to Wellsville students about sex, masturbation, God and suicide.
kansascity.com
8:35 AM · May 1, 2021

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article251069219.html

Kansas state Rep. Mark Samsel was arrested on charges of misdemeanor battery on Thursday after getting into a physical altercation with a student while substitute teaching in Wellsville.

Samsel, 36, was booked into the Franklin County Adult Detention Center after 3:30 p.m. Thursday. He has since been released on $1,000 bond, Sheriff Jeff Richards said.

Superintendent Ryan Bradbury said that Samsel will no longer be allowed to work for the district.

On Wednesday, Samsel, R-Wellsville, was substitute teaching at the Wellsville school district’s secondary school. Throughout the day, high school students began recording videos of the lawmaker talking about suicide, sex, masturbation, God and the Bible.

In one video shared with The Star, Samsel tells students about “a sophomore who’s tried killing himself three times,” adding that it was because “he has two parents and they’re both females.”

“He’s a foster kid. His alternatives in life were having no parents or foster care parents who are gay,” Samsel tells students. “How do you think I’m going to feel if he commits suicide? Awful.”

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[Luciferous]

1. Just finished the article and that guy is batshit crazy and should never be allowed around kids!

[greenjar_01]

2. What in the world?

[CurtEastPoint]

3. I swear to GOD. They are all either crazy and/or stupid and/or cruel and/or hateful. EVERY ONE.

[NNadir]

4. These people are completely and totally nuts. This fool should not be in a classroom...

...but rather in a facility for the criminally insane.

What's the matter with Kansas that this person can be in government there.

Do they really hate children that much in that state?

[Wednesdays]

5. He was charged with battery?

This whole thing is shocking.

[dameatball]

6. Guy needs treatment, but first step....get him away from kids. He obviously has taken purposeful

steps to engage in activities where contact is made. He has been a busy little fella....school, I think it said refereeing, etc. I didn't notice if the article said he was involved in any kind of youth ministries or church activities, but it seems likely.

[Paladin]

7. +1000. (nt)

[MarcA]

8. Another power crazed Authoritarian

who has been in a culture that doesn't negate it. Should probably be thankful
one of the Students' parents didn't show up.

[stillcool]

9. good thing there's video...

every time I read something like this, it goes a long way in explaining the mentality of so many Americans.

Samsel, who is an attorney, is in his second term in the House, where he’s occasionally courted controversy. In February, he was one of just 13 lawmakers to vote against a bill that would have ended an exemption for spouses from the state’s sexual battery law.

Ahead of the vote, he gave a speech in which he appeared to express concerns about criminalizing sexual relations between spouses.
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The district reported the incident, and an investigation was conducted by the Wellsville Police Department and Franklin County Sheriff’s Office. After the investigation, Samsel was arrested for misdemeanor battery, according to a news release.

In a Snapchat post shared with The Star, Samsel wrote that “it was all planned.”

“Every little bit of it. That’s right. The kids and I planned ALL this to SEND A MESSAGE about art, mental health, teenage suicide, how we treat our educators and one another. To who? Parents. And grandparents. And all of Wellsville,” he posted.

[Midnight Writer]

11. Sounds like he is likely to re-offend. I hope the Judge takes this into account.

[Cracklin Charlie]

10. Was all over the local news this morning.

Guy is nuts.

[struggle4progress]

12. He's an attorney but now works as a substitute teacher?