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Weiner Gets 21 Months in Prison for Sexting

Former Congressman Anthony Weiner leaves federal court following his sentencing, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017, in New York. Weiner was sentenced to 21 months in a
sexting case that rocked the presidential race.
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

By TOM HAYS freedom. called his “rock bottom.” and Snapchat.In handing and pictures with young
NEW YORK (AP) — Weiner, 53, dropped his As his parents but not down the sentence, U.S. women shows a “very
Anthony Weiner’s sexting head into his hands and his wife looked on in the District Judge Denise Cote strong compulsion” — so
compulsion cost him his wept as a federal judge courtroom, the New York cited a need in such a strong that “despite two
seat in Congress, his shot at sentenced him to 21 Democrat was given until highly publicized case to very public disclosures
becoming New York mayor months behind bars for Nov. 6 to report to prison for “make a statement that and the destruction of his
and his marriage, and may illicit online contact with misconduct that included can protect other minors.” career on two occasions,
have even denied Hillary a 15-year-old girl, his tears getting the North Carolina The judge said Weiner’s he continued with the
Clinton the presidency. flowing long after the gavel high school student to strip habit of exchanging activity.”
On Monday, it cost him his came down on a case he and touch herself on Skype sexually explicit messages Continued on Page 4