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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Mayor Sam Adams, who has admitted lying about a sexual relationship with a teenager, said Sunday that he would not resign. A city commissioner, Randy Leonard, told The Associated Press that Mr. Adams had left a phone message in the morning saying he had decided to remain in office. Two other commissioners told The Oregonian of Portland that Mr. Adams, the city’s first openly gay mayor, had told them the same thing. The fourth, Amanda Fritz, declined to comment. Efforts to reach Mr. Adams were unsuccessful. The Oregonian’s editorial page has called for his resignation, as...

Child support request leads to rape arrest Mother charged with statutory rape when Family Court realizes father was 13 By DON LEHMAN dlehman@poststar.com Thursday, October 5, 2006 10:46 PM EDT WARRENSBURG A woman's desire to get child support payments from the father of her young child landed her in jail Thursday, police said. The Warrensburg mother's trips to Warren County Family Court in recent weeks prompted court officials to investigate her claim further, allowing them to determine the person who fathered her child was 13 years old when he had sex with her, officials said. That's statutory rape under state...

Statutory rape law ruled unconstitutional May 23, 2006 21:53 The Supreme Court has unanimously declared unconstitutional the law under which any man is automatically guilty of a crime if he has sex with a girl under 15. The court made its decision on several grounds, including the failure to allow the defence that a genuine mistake had been made about a girl's age. The successful challenge to the legislation was brought by a 23-year-old man. He had admitted having consensual intercourse with a girl who, he claimed, had told him she was 16. He was 17 at the time in...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The state's social services agency went to court to block a 13-year-old girl who is pregnant and living in a state shelter from having an abortion, and the girl wants to challenge the judge's decision. The ACLU filed an emergency appeal on Wednesday asking a judge to overturn the ruling that would essentially force the girl to become a mother, said Howard Simon, the organization's executive director for Florida. The girl, named L.G. in court documents and described as a longtime ward of the state, learned she was pregnant two weeks ago and had planned...

WORLAND (AP) -- The family of a teenage girl who was allegedly given emergency contraception pills under the supervision of a school counselor has filed a claim against Washakie County School District No. 1. The claim included a dollar amount, but the family's attorney, Larry Berryman, declined to reveal it, the Northern Wyoming Daily News reports. Berryman said in a prepared statement that the Worland High School student, 15, confided in the ninth-grade counselor that she had sex with a 23-year-old and was afraid of being pregnant. The counselor made an appointment with the public health office in Worland and...

<p>Billboards, posters and drink coasters will deliver a state campaign to try to dissuade older men from having sex with underage girls.</p> <p>The Health Department will bring the campaign to Northern Virginia, Richmond and Roanoke this month and next. The campaign is modeled on a pilot project that ran last July in Hampton Roads, which the department deemed a success.</p>

Herbert Lee Hill met a girl at the Jackson County Fair and that night they engaged in sexual relations at a relative's home. Trouble is, he was 35 and she was 14 -- statutory rape. "She lied about her age. I can't change that," Hill told Circuit Judge Chad Schmucker on Wednesday. Nor can he undo the pregnancy and son created in the union. "The tragedy is that we have a very young child raising an infant," Schmucker said, sentencing Hill to one to 15 years in prison. A jury found Hill guilty of third-degree criminal sexual conduct. Sentencing guidelines...