Anthony Weiner pleads guilty to sex charge amid divorce from top Clinton aide
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Anthony Weiner pleads guilty to sex charge amid divorce from top Clinton aide
Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former New York congressman and estranged husband of top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, tearfully admitted to a federal judge that he had sent obscene material to a 15-year-old high school student in North Carolina. Weiner, who turned himself in to the FBI, pleaded guilty in federal court Friday morning to a single count of transferring obscene material to a minor. Later in the afternoon, a court official confirmed that Abedin had filed for divorce after seven years of marriage. The divorce is uncontested. Weiner, 52, agreed to surrender his iPhone as part of the plea agreement, and he must register as a sex offender. Weiner also apologized to the teenage girl.
[I] compulsively sought attention from women. … I have a sickness, but I do not have an excuse.
Anthony Weiner
Abedin announced her separation from Weiner in August 2016. The two married in 2010, and in June 2011 Weiner resigned from Congress, a month after the release of an explicit photo of him that he inadvertently posted on his Twitter account. At the time, Abedin was pregnant with their son, who was born in December 2011. During Weiner’s campaign for mayor of New York in 2013, a similar sexting scandal unfolded.
These destructive impulses brought great devastation to my family and friends, and destroyed my life’s dream of public service.
Anthony Weiner
