Republicans defend Arkansas rep who ‘rehomed’ adopted girls with a rapist [View all]
A pair of Arkansas Republicans have stepped up to the plate to defend an embattled state lawmaker accused of “rehoming” his adopted daughters to a rapist, using Facebook to attack the media coverage of their colleague.
On Wednesday, the Arkansas Democratic Party called upon Rep. Justin Harris (R) to resign following revelations that he and his wife made the “unilateral decision to move two of his adopted daughters into another family’s home” where one of the girls was sexually assaulted. The call for his resignation comes following a week of stories reported by the Arkansas Times, — which originally broke the story — containing interviews with Department of Children and Families staffers, previous foster parents, and baby sitters, saying Harris and his wife mistreated the two girls and have lied to the press about their dealings with the DCFS.
On Facebook, Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin (R) got into an argument with a fellow commenter on a post linking to an Times story on Harris, saying she was “making a judgement based upon misinformation by a vile socialist anti-Christian propaganda blog about one of the most righteous seeming, humble, and gentle men I have ever met in my life.”
In a series of comments screen-captured by the woman, Martin responded to her comment that Harris gave away the children “like they were animals he picked up at a shelter,” by saying you have to have adopted a foster child to know what Harris and his wife had gone through.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/republicans-defend-arkansas-rep-who-rehomed-adopted-girls-with-a-rapist/
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