Butler Village, Ohio Mayor Wesley Dingus resigned from office on Tuesday, a swift and dramatic end to a scandal that had engulfed his administration after the revelation of a secret taping system in his teenage stepdaughter’s bedroom revealed his complicity in a break in of her hamper to sniff her panties while fondling himself after she had left for school last month, 19 News reports.
The now-disgraced Republican former leader transmitted his resignation to the village council on a ripped piece of legal pad on which he scribbled “Effective Immediately I, Wesley Dingus, resign as Village of Butler Mayor, not under stress but duress,” following his monitored release on $1,000 bond. Village council President Rick Thran is expected to take the oath of office at a meeting on Tuesday to assume leading Butlerians though he needs to “spend time in prayer” to think on it first.
Dingus is the first mayor in the village’s 178 year history to resign for sniffing panties.