Cheryl Maher: Kevin Garn Confesses The Truth

Utah’s House majority leader, Kevin Garn, confesses on late Thursday night that he had shared a bath tub with a 15-year-old 25 years ago. “This has just been a nightmare for me,” Maher said in a telephone interview with the newspaper from New Hampshire. “I just want to tell the truth because it’s part of the healing process for me.”

Cheryl Maher recently surfaced and said that she was paid $150,000 to keep silent about the incident as she was minor that time.

“While this payment felt like extortion, I also felt like I should take her word that the money would help her heal. She agreed to keep this 25-year-old incident confidential. Now that this issue is coming up again, it is apparent to me that this payment was also a mistake,” Garn said.

“Although we did not have any sexual contact, it was still clearly inappropriate – and it was my fault,” Garn said.

“I apologize to you, my colleagues, for any shame this brings to the Utah State Legislature. I have tried my best to serve my constituents in a way that brings honor to them and makes this great state better than the way I found it. I hope to continue to do that,” Garn said.