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New Accuser Files Lawsuit Claiming Hastert Sodomized Him

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A new accuser says that, as a fourth-grader in Yorkville Grade School, he was sodomized by former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert decades ago in the public restroom.

Hastert is scheduled to be released from a federal prison in mid-August after serving a sentence for violating banking laws in the course of paying hush money to a person who had been on the wrestling team Hastert coached.

Court Records show the new lawsuit was filed Friday in Kendall County Circuit Court. The plaintiff was identified as “Richard Doe,” and a hearing is scheduled Tuesday to determine whether he can continue to use the pseudonym rather than his real name.

The lawsuit was filed by the same Chicago law firm which also is representing the person known as Individual A, the former Yorkville student whose hush-money agreement with Hastert led to the former speaker’s sentence for banking violations. Hastert is being sued by that person for $1.8 million that was unpaid from the agreement.

The lawsuit accuses Hastert of battery, false imprisonment, negligent infliction of emotional distress and intentional infliction of emotional distress, according to the Daily Chronicle.

Doe and his attorneys named Hastert as a defendant in the civil lawsuit and Yorkville School District 115 as a "respondent in discovery," which means the district is not a defendant in the lawsuit but could be if enough information is obtained to make it a defendant.       

Details of the new lawsuit reported by the Northwest Herald claim that Hastert sodomized “Richard Doe” in the public restroom and then threatened him at school weeks later if he ever told anyone.

The report also says that Doe attempted to report the incident to then- Kendall County State's Attorney Dallas Ingemunson, a prominent player in Hastert’s political career. The suit states that Ingemunson threatened to charge Doe with a crime.

Ingemunson denied the accusations when he was contacted Saturday by the Herald.

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