NATION : Lukens Out After 9 Days in Jail
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Former U.S. Rep. Donald Lukens was released from jail today after serving nine days of a 30-day sentence for having sex with a teen-ager.
The judge who sentenced Lukens agreed Thursday to release the former congressman so he could receive counseling. He was to go to a Washington clinic for sex offenders.
Lukens did not comment to reporters as he walked out of the Franklin County Jail and into a car shortly before 8 a.m. At one point, he stumbled over a television crew’s electrical cable and angrily stomped on it.
Later, as he rushed to board a Washington-bound plane at Port Columbus International Airport, he told reporters: “You people find someone else to bug.”
Lukens, 59, a Republican, told the judge that jail was a sobering experience.
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