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Republican who won county seat pleads guilty to sexual assault of daughter

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The courthouse in Hancock county, Indiana. Records show Jessup pleaded guilty in Nevada court last week. Photograph: Roberto Galan/Getty Images

Days after winning elected office, a Republican politician in Indiana pleaded guilty to trying to sexually assault his daughter in Las Vegas and now must resign his position.

John Jessup, the commissioner of Hancock, Indiana, was charged in Nevada in June in connection with a sexual assault that occurred in January, reported the local Greenfield Daily Reporter newspaper and KLAS.

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