According to a report from the Chicago Sun-Times, Judge Robert Pilmer dismissed the case citing the statute of limitations. The victim in the case, identified as "Richard Doe" in court documents, is the sixth individual to claim he was sexually assaulted by Hastert.
The man claimed that when he was in fourth grade in 1973, he was riding his bike in Yorkville, Illinois, when he stopped to use the restroom near Yorkville High School. His lawsuit states that a large man opened the door of the stall he was in, and then forcefully sodomized him.
The man said he saw his attacker's face but did not recognize him. Hastert was a teacher at Yorkville High School at the time, and the man claims he ran into Hastert weeks later during gym class where Hastert "took the alleged victim by the neck, led him into the hallway, dropped to his knees and asked if he had told anyone about the assault."
Comment: If this is the kind of bottom-of-the-barrel scum that end up in politics, no wonder we're all doomed. From this report: $50,000? That's nothing compared to the $1.7 million he's already paid to another individual, which he is (to add insult to injury) suing the victim back for! This guy is a piece of sh*t of the lowest order. And it's not just in the US, almost anywhere you go, pedophiles run the government and nobody gives a damn!