Anthony Weiner's Ex-Sexter Sydney Leathers Addresses His Teen Victim
June 14 2017, Updated 8:53 p.m. ET
No more Carlos 'Danger'?
One of the original women who first outed ex-congressman Anthony Weiner as a pervert has written an explosive "open letter" to his 15-year-old victim. It hits Breaking Celebrity News as Weiner was sentenced after he pleaded guilty in federal court to transferring obscene material to an underage girl.
Sydney Leathers, 28, was an Indiana gal who sexted with Weiner in 2013, as Breaking Celebrity News has reported. Weiner famously called himself "Carlos Danger" while sending Leathers naughty texts.
Leathers leaked his texts and was later outed and became famous herself.
But after other sexting scandals for Weiner, his lewd texts with an underaged girl finally brought him down. The teen had contacted Leathers before going to the Daily Mail with her story about her sex-laden online chats with Weiner.
And now, Leathers has exclusively given Breaking Celebrity News an explosive "open letter" to his under-aged victim.
Here is Leathers' letter:
"In May of 2016, I was celebrating my upcoming college graduation, not knowing my celebration would be short-lived. That same month I started receiving messages on Facebook from a 15-year-old girl who said she had been sexting and skyping with Anthony Weiner. Initially, I thought someone was trying to prank me. I thought there was no way this could be true. Sure, he had been caught sexting plenty of women, but I just didn't think he would go after a child in that way. But then I started really racking my brain and I remembered something: around the time of his first scandal that forced him to resign from Congress he had been caught sexting a 17-year-old girl. I don't recall that particular part of the scandal being a large focus. Not too many people seemed outraged about it and the media didn't pay much attention to it. I'm not sure if that's because 17 is "close enough" to 18, or if people were distracted by the circus sideshow this scandal had become. (Remember the press conference Andrew Breitbart hijacked?) While I was reconsidering whether or not what this 15 year old was saying to me was plausible, I decided to ask for some sort of proof. She quickly sent me a screenshot of a conversation she was having with Weiner via facebook messenger. The first thing I noticed: he used the same facebook account to talk to both of us. Her story was adding up.
"At first, she was discussing the idea of going to the media with this story. I was reluctant, mostly because of my experiences with media. I had tried to give information about Weiner anonymously and I was quickly outed by Buzzfeed. I worried she would have a similar fate. Yes, she was a minor, but would media outlets really care enough to protect this child's identity? I wasn't sure, so I asked if she would go to the local police in her home state of North Carolina. She told me she didn't want to go to the police because she felt like she had been consenting. I explained to her that at 15 years old, legally, you cannot consent for a reason: you are not mentally or emotionally equipped to handle these types of adult decisions. At 15, you cannot grasp the consequences of adult decisions. I wanted her to understand this wasn't her fault, she wasn't to blame, she did nothing wrong. Being targeted by a predator makes her the victim; she had been groomed by a grown man with very serious issues.