Mumbai, September 12: In live recordings aired on a porn website, a candidate in a crucial legislative race in Virginia engaged in sex acts with her husband and solicited donations from viewers in exchange for performing particular sex acts.

The Associated Press was sent screenshots of Susanna Gibson's online persona. Gibson's campaign, a Democrat running for a Virginia House of Delegates seat in a district not far from Richmond, released a statement on Monday denouncing the dissemination of the tapes as a breach of her privacy and the law. The release of the tapes, according to Gibson, was "the worst gutter politics." US Shocker: First-Graders Force 6-Year-Old Classmate To 'Perform Sex Act' During Classroom in Texas, Record Act on iPad; Investigation Underway.

It won’t intimidate me and it won’t silence me. My political opponents and their Republican allies have proven they’re willing to commit a sex crime to attack me and my family because there’s no line they won’t cross to silence women when they speak up, Gibson said in the statement.

The turn could prove to be a dramatic change in the polls that will have a big impact on how the Virginia General Assembly's balance of power is established. For a legislative campaign during a non-election year, the contest has generated significant funding and interest.

Republicans hold a four-vote advantage in the House of Delegates, while four seats are empty, and Democrats hold a four-vote advantage in the Senate. As GOP rising star Gov. Glenn Youngkin seeks to advance his conservative agenda with total control of state government, the parties are engaged in fierce legislative battles. UK Man, Who Was Caught on Camera Performing Sex Act on Seagull While Watching Porn, Pleads Guilty: Report.

Gibson was quoted by Daily Mail as claiming that making the film public is an illegal violation of her privacy, intended to defame her and her family. The distribution of the video, according to Gibson's attorney Daniel P. Watkins, is against Virginia's revenge porn legislation, which makes it unlawful to "maliciously" distribute or sell nude or sexual photographs of another person with the intention to "coerce, harass, or intimidate."

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