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A Democrat elected official in Darby Township, Pennsylvania, has
been arrested and charged with raping a 15-year-old boy.
Marvin Smith, a 50-year-old Democrat elected to the Darby Township
Board of Commissioners in 2019, turned himself in to the
Philadelphia Police Department late last week on charges of rape,
sexual assault, and others related to the rape of a 15-year-old boy
in 2017.
According to investigators, on August 12, 2017, Smith was in his
vehicle when he approached the boy and offered to give him a ride.
Smith lured the boy by claiming to be a family friend, investigators
claim.
When the boy got into Smith’s vehicle, Smith drove them to a park
where he then allegedly raped the teen. Afterward, the boy told
police that Smith dropped him off at an undisclosed location. The
boy first filed a sexual assault complaint against Smith in April
2019 but an arrest warrant was not issued until November 22, 2021.
Smith remains listed as a Darby Township Commissioner on the local government’s website. Smith remains in police custody on a $100,000
bail.
In September 2020, following a summer of riots by Black Lives Matter
activists, Smith shared a meme on his Facebook page that depicted
two black men with guns drawn at a white police officer’s head with
the caption, “Does it have to come to this to make them stop
murdering and terrorizing us?”
As a result, Smith was stripped of his duties overseeing the
region’s police department.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at
jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/02/pennsylvania- democrat-commissioner-charged-raping-15-year-old-boy/
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