Missouri state Rep. Barry Hovis, a former police lieutenant, said most of the sexual assault cases he handled in his law enforcement career were 'date rapes or consensual rapes.'
By Orion Donovan-Smith Orion Donovan-Smith Email Bio Follow May 17 at 2:59 PM A Republican state legislator from Missouri said the majority of sexual assaults are either “date rapes or consensual rapes” during a debate in the state house over a bill that would ban abortion at eight weeks. The GOP-controlled House passed the bill shortly after.
— Crystal Thomas May 17, 2019 Rep. Barry Hovis, a 30-year veteran of the Cape Girardeau Police Department who was elected to state office in 2018, was discussing his experience handling rape cases. He later told a reporter from the Kansas City Star that he misspoke, and that “there is no such thing as consensual rape.”Just spoke with Rep. Hovis. He said he misspoke and meant to say LEOs finding out whether what occurred was “consensual or rape.” He didn’t realize the error until Proudie spoke.
“I’ve been a person that’s taken reports of rape,” Hovis said during his remarks. “I’ve taken reports of incest. I have been involved in those investigations and there’s many different levels when we talk about those things. All of them are terrible. . . . Let’s just say someone goes out and they’re raped or they’re sexually assaulted one night after a college party — because most of my rapes were not the gentleman jumping out of the bushes that nobody had ever met.
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