Ohio Rep. Max Miller Sued After Nude Photo of Daughter Was Shared Online
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Max Miller is being sued by his ex-wife after he released a naked photo of their 2-year-old daughter while fighting domestic abuse claims.
Emily Moreno, the daughter of Ohio Sen.
Bernie Moreno, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, accusing the congressman and his lawyer, Aaron Minc, of having “recklessly published and disclosed to the world” a picture of the child’s genitalia earlier this month.
Miller, 43, inadvertently shared the photo after publishing a link to a Dropbox folder online containing a trove of documents that he claimed would vindicate him from a string of abuse allegations.
These include claims that Miller poured hot water on Emily Moreno, beat her, pointed a gun at her head, and potentially broke the collarbone of their 2-year-old daughter.
The congressman has repeatedly denied the accusations .
The image was available to view online for a day before it was taken down.
Moreno, 32, is seeking $150,000 in damages for each time the image of the child was downloaded from Miller’s and Minc’s Dropbox accounts.
“Faced with a mostly self-inflicted dumpster fire of public attention to his reputation for abusive behavior, Miller so desperately wanted to salvage his political job, that he recklessly and intentionally provided Minc a trove of documents and photos, indifferent about what they contained or how they were used,” the lawsuit said.
Minc previously took responsibility for the image being included in the link shared online by Miller and “corrected the file immediately” after realizing the error.
“Unfortunately, I missed the last three pages of a 40+ page document with sensitive content,” Minc told CNN .
“It was completely unintentional and a mistake.” During a car-crash interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper after the image was removed, Miller made sure to point the finger at his attorney, but denied that including it in the first place amounted to “shockingly reckless” behavior from his team.
“My attorney took full responsibility,” Miller said.
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