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Fox News' Hemmer latest to advance made-up charge that Jennings knew of "statutory rape" case and "never reported it"

October 01, 2009 2:26 pm ET

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SUMMARY: Fox News' Bill Hemmer continued his network's attacks on Department of Education official Kevin Jennings by claiming that Jennings knew of a "statutory rape" case involving a student but "never reported it." However, Hemmer ignored that Jennings' attorney wrote in a 2004 letter that the student was 16 years old, which Jennings' book appears to support, and that 16 is -- and was at the time -- the legal age of consent in Massachusetts.

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