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Fla. 'Romeo' Sex Offender Gets Pardon

Fla. 'Romeo' Sex Offender Gets Pardon
Man With 15-Year-Old Girlfriend Convicted When 21 Years Old

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A second man in as many months has received a pardon after being convicted of having consensual sex with an underage girl he later married.

Gov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet, sitting as the Board of Executive Clemency, granted the pardon Thursday to John Eugene Kemp. He no longer will have to register as sex offender.

Kemp now lives in Lake County with is wife, Jessica, and their three children. He was 21 and his future wife 15 when he was convicted in Volusia County. The couple said police and the news media harassed them when they lived in Deltona.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/21104587/detail.html

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