Who is Tony Bouchard? Anthony Bouchard's son, 36, born to his 15-year-old wife in 1984, jailed for forced sodomy
TULARE, CALIFORNIA: Wyoming Republican Senator and Liz Cheney's GOP challenger Anthony Bouchard revealed on May 21 that he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18. During the Facebook Live on Friday, Bouchard admitted to getting her pregnant as a teenager and later marrying her. The girl happened to be Bouchard's first wife Frances Lynn Webb with whom he had a son, Tony Bouchard.
Tony Bouchard, now 36, is presently behind bars at Bob Wiley Detention Facility in Tulare County, California, for alleged sex crimes, including sodomy against a 51-year-old woman. After his mother died by suicide at the age of 20, Tony was brought up by his father.
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Who is Tony Bouchard?
Tony Bouchard is the first child of Anthony Bouchard with his first wife Frances Lynn Webb. He was born Tony Raymond Bouchard Jr. on May 26, 1984.
In the recent past, the 36-year-old California resident was arrested on multiple felony charges of sexual crimes against his 51-year-old female victim, whose name has not been revealed to protect her identity. According to the Daily Mail, Tony Bouchard faces charges of sodomy by use of force, forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration by a foreign object, force and violence, and false imprisonment by violence. He is awaiting trial at the Tulare County Superior Court later this year.
An insider Republican operative revealed that Bouchard's son's arrest and charges are well-known as a scandal in the political domain of Wyoming.
Anthony and Tony Bouchard's relationship
Anthony Bouchard, who has three children with his second wife Billie Jean, welcomed his firstborn son Tony at the age of 19 years, three weeks prior to his marriage to Webb.
"A lot of pressure - pressure to abort a baby, I got to tell you. I wasn't going to do it, and neither was she," Bouchard told during the Facebook live.
He added, "There was pressure to have her banished from their family. Just pressure. Pressure to go hide somewhere, and the only thing I could see as the right thing to do was to get married and take care of him."
He summed up the entire incident as "two teenagers - girl gets pregnant." "You've heard those stories before. She was a little younger than me, so it's like the Romeo and Juliet story,' he emphasized.
Webb and Bouchard divorced three years later, followed by her horrific suicide at the age of 20. As a young father, Anthony Bouchard was left with the sole responsibility of raising a child.
Speaking about the relationship with his now distant son, Anthony Bouchard said, " 'Sadly, he's made some wrong choices in his life. He's almost become my estranged son. Some of the things that he's got going on in his life, I certainly don't approve of them. Sadly, he's made some wrong choices in his life. He's almost become my estranged son, but I'm not going to abandon him. I still love him, just like when he was born."