UPDATE: Joe Morrisey says he’s innocent. He claims that his phone, and the phone of the young woman, were both hacked by a third party. Although the woman left the job with Morrisey in August, he bought her a car and spent the night with her in a hotel in October. He was seen with her socially last month.
According to CBS channel 6 news Delegate Joe Morrisey faces 5 child sex charges and up to 30 years in jail. Those charges include:
supervisory indecent liberties with a minor, electronic solicitation of a minor, possession of child pornography, distribution of child pornography and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
The charges stem from a sexual relationship Delegate Morrisey had with an underage receptionist in his law office. He had sex with her in his office and then (stupidly) texted a friend about it. He also sent a text to the young girl asking her for a nude picture which she provided. Morrisey sent that picture to friends. The girl, her mother, and her grandmother, all deny that she had a sexual relationship with Morrisey. However, phone records from Morrisey and the girl confirm their relationship. The investigation has been ongoing for almost a year beginning when the girl’s father went to Morrisey’s house looking for his daughter. Her mother claimed her daughter had permission to be at Morrisey’s house. Within weeks of the girl’s hiring on August 5th, Morrisey began having sex with her in his office. The girl lied on her job application saying that she was 22 years old. Police believe Morrisey was aware of her true age.
Morrisey is the Virginia delegate who last year brandished an AK47 on the floor of the House of Delegates. Joe Morrisey was elected to the House of Delegates in 2007, having previously served as the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Richmond. He was previously convicted of beating a man and threatening to kill him. For that incident he lost his law license for a decade. He represents the 74th district which covers Richmond, Hopewell, Charles City County and parts of the counties of Henrico and Prince George. He is the father of three daughters and currently single.
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Seems to be quite enough immorality and stupidity in this story to go around. And so far only one politician has done the right thing.
What’s up with the girl’s parents? Mom is ok with her daughter boinking Morrisey so Mom helps cover up? Dad originally called the police on Morrisey’s involvement with his daughter, but now apparently he too is fine with the situation. Maybe they’re proud of their young daughter for snaring a politician.
The daughter lied about her age on her application and has been having an ongoing torrid affair and lying to prosecutors about it. She follows a long line of groupie-tramps.
Joe Morrisey – violently beat a man and consequently lost his law license for 10 years. Has three daughters from three different women – none of whom he was married to. Furthermore he now had a sexual affair with an underage girl AND was dumb enough to leave evidence on their cell phones, to say nothing about him parading her out in public with their dinners at restaurants.
His constituents in the 74th District knew about his unsavory past – his criminal assault and numerous illegitimate kids – and yet they still kept electing him. They deserve him.
Women’s groups are strangely silent here; wouldn’t you think they’d reprove his sex with a minor girl and child pornography? And Del. David Toscano is acting like most Dem politicians do in this situation – circling the wagons — standing behind Morrisey, hoping this will all blow over.
Kudos to Del. Mark Keam (D) for calling on Morrissey to resign. Where are the rest?
And how about another guys constituents? Remember Mark Sanford? His constituents basically rubber stamped what he did by promoting him to good ole’ DC!
Was the Sanford deal a deterrent to other politicians? If your husband or wife cannot trust you, why on earth would anyone else be able to?
Somebody sends these guys the wrong kind of message. That somebody in my opinion has been the voter.
How many times do I have to say it, the government is a reflection of its people in a democracy.
Listen – I used to own a taxi-company in Richmond. I can tell you that MANY of those cats are perverts.
My cabs used to sit at the omni and pick them up and drop them off at the hotel all night long when they were in session. The trash they talk about doing and with-who was putrid. What we have here is light-weight compared to how they really get down.
Sex with underage girls is not light weight. It’s disgusting.
Then you can appreciate what I’m saying. . .in terms of magnitude.
Doubtless the guy is a cad, but the evidence that he knew her true age better be ironclad. As a juror, I’d have a hard time convicting someone of abusing an underage girl if she appears to be of age and she lied about her age.
Morrisey is probably good friends with the Fauquier County Republican chair Scott Russell, after all I know that Morrisey likes kids and Russell has kids, so someone should call Cameron Jones and his pals and tell them to report Russell to the police.
Really, you had to go there on this kind of subject. You have absolutly no class at all. This is nothing to wise crack about. If these charges are true, even if the worst of them aren’t, this man (using that word only to imply gender absolutly nothing else) should go to prison for a long time. I hope he will enjoy his time in there, I hear it would make him a popular fellow.
Really Rick? Get a grip. You’re sounding like a nutcase.
The thing that kills me about this jackass…is he thinks HE is the upstanding citizen….in spite of his NUMEROUS failings.