This is eerie. I do not remember much being made of this at the time.Funny how the memory goes....
A 17 year old page? And he actually had sex with him?
And then didn't resign?
I'm finding this all hard to believe.
Two sex with pages scandals at the same time. A conservative Republican (Dan Crane, brother of Phil) from downstate Illinois had consensual, adultrous sex with a female page. And this Studds geek, a liberal Devilcrat who had sex (possibly coerced, my memory on that is fuzzy) with a male page. Guess who stayed in ofice.
Not coerced. According to the AP story as it appears on the NY Times web site, "Studds defended the relationship as a consensual relationship with a young adult. The page later appeared publicly with Studds in support of him."