Re: Democrat sex offender Dan Sutton.

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.