District attorney says he had sex in office

BEDFORD, Pa. (AP) — A south-central Pennsylvania district attorney admitted in a television interview that he had extramarital sex with a woman in his courthouse office.

“The allegation is that I was involved in an extramarital relationship in my office and that’s accurate,” Bedford County District Attorney William Higgins told WTAJ-TV in an interview broadcast Thursday. “While what I did is reprehensible and terrible, I did nothing criminal and nothing that would even warrant an investigation.”

Higgins, 34, said he had met the woman at a fundraiser three weeks ago, and at the end of the night, they returned to his office and had sex, the television station reported.

The chairman of the county commissioners, Michael Herline, said he was looking into the report because the sex occurred on county property.

But he told The Associated Press the only thing the commissioners could do is issue a reprimand, “and that has about as much weight as the paper it’s written on.”

Higgins, a Republican serving his second term, said he had apologized to Herline for the embarrassment he has caused the county.