This story involves a GOP councilman from St. Petersburg, Florida. Yet another example of the true "family values" of the GOP. Funny how these types of stories do not seem to be showing up everywhere about Democrats. (See: http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/2007/09/st-petersburg-1.html):John Bryan, 56, a St. Petersburg City Council member, had been accused of sexually abusing his three adopted daughters. Police were investigating, but they had not charged Bryan with a crime. On Friday, he killed himself just hours after a judge ordered him to stay away from his two youngest girls.
A staunch Republican and former finance chairman for U.S. Sen. Connie Mack, Bryan helped push Baker's agenda through the City Council.
In his public life, Bryan appeared to be the doting father. Photos of his two youngest daughters adorned his office at City Hall. He brought the girls with him to speaking engagements, bragged about them to anyone who would listen and posed for pictures with them during his campaign for re-election in 2005. He was known throughout central Florida as an advocate for foster children.
If the sexual abuse allegations were true, the girls might have an easier time moving on now that their dad is gone, Galatzer-Levy said. But not being able to confront him, or have closure through an investigation or trial, also could make things harder. "It would be hard to deal with, if the price of relief is that your father's dead," he said.
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