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"I have my rough edges, there's no doubt about that", Keppel said when asked about his own court records and the conviction of Fansler and the felony sexual abuse charges against Anderson-Agimuk. After an hour at the bar, Fansler and the woman parted ways, but they met up later that night at the hotel where Fansler was living while in Juneau for the legislative session. "The Colonized World Teaches Us to Become Aggressive" Upon Fansler's resignation in early 2018, Alaska Democrats in the Bethel region selected Anderson-Agimuk to become the district party chairman and to begin looking over applications for a replacement. PHOTO (COLOR): From left to right: Former Alaska state Rep. Zach Fansler, his aide Benjamin AndersonAgimuk and Willy Keppel, who is running for Fansler's former seat. [Extracted from the article]

School District That Employed Principal Despite Sex Abuse Complaints Will Pay $3.8 Million to His Victims: An Alaska school principal who abused young girls kept his job despite years of complaints. Carmichael's actions also prompted two civil lawsuits brought on behalf of a total of four children against the Lower Kuskokwim School District, which employed Carmichael for nearly 20 years. The Lower Kuskokwim School District settlement is among the largest payouts for a sexual abuse case in the state in the last two decades. [Extracted from the article]

Unheard: Alaska has the highest rate of sexual assault in the nation. A grand jury handed up 11 felony charges against the alleged perpetrator: four counts of first-degree sexual assault, five counts of second-degree sexual assault, and one count each of third-degree assault and theft. In December 2017, the same defendant pleaded guilty to an attempted sexual assault charge in the second degree, after another victim reported him. A community advocate for Alaska Native survivors of sexual assault, especially missing and murdered indigenous women, Smith intimately knows the scars of child sexual abuse. [Extracted from the article]