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The South Dakota Senate on Wednesday censured Dan Sutton, a Democrat
from Flandreau, who admitted sharing a bed with a former legislative
page last winter.

The 32-2 vote came after three days of hearings before a special
disciplinary committee last week — and right after a vote to expel
him failed.

In separate testimony, Sutton and the former page, now 19, had told
the panel they slept in the same bed in a Fort Pierre motel for two
nights early last February.

Sutton, 36, was accused of sexually groping the young man last year
while the two shared a room at the start of the youth's weeklong
stint in the Legislature. The South Dakota attorney general and
other law enforcement agents investigated the allegations and made
no arrests. But the Senate committee accused Sutton of sexual
misconduct.

Austin Wiese, now 19, testified that Sutton, a longtime personal and
family friend, touched his genitals through his shorts as the two
slept in a king-size bed.

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