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More pages recount 'sexual approaches' by Foley over Internet
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October 6, 2006

WASHINGTON — The list of accusers keeps growing longer.

Four more former congressional pages brought forward their own lurid accounts of their dealings with former Rep. Mark Foley on Thursday, less than a week after the congressman resigned from office.

Three pages — who served in the classes of 1998, 2000 and 2002 — recounted Foley's "sexual approaches" over the Internet, ABC News reported Thursday evening.

"I was seventeen years old and just returned to (my home state) when Foley began to e-mail me, asking if I had ever seen my page roommates naked ..." said one 2002 page, who did not want to be identified.

The former page said Foley had invited him to stay at his home near Capitol Hill if he would have sex with the congressman.

The page said he had been interviewed by the FBI.

Another former page revealed that Foley had visited the page dorms and asked pages if he could give them rides to events in his BMW.

But the solicitation reportedly didn't stop there. The page, part of the 2000 class, said Foley kept in touch with him with a steady stream of e-mails and arranged a sexual liaison after the page turned 18.

"His e-mails developed into sexually explicit conversations ..." the page said.

A third page, who was part of the 1998 class, said he began receiving instant messages from Foley when he was still a senior in high school.

"Foley would say he was sitting in his boxers and ask what I was wearing," the page said. "It became more weird, and I stopped responding."

In Atlanta, former page Tyson Vivyan, 26, said Foley sent him sexually suggestive messages a month or two after he left the page program in 1997.

"It was almost surreal," Vivyan said. "Not only was I conversing with a congressman in a personal manner, I was conversing in a sexual manner."

Many former pages say they knew about Foley's engaging, overly friendly personality.

"It was kind of known that he flirted with some of the male pages," said Jason Davis, who served as a page in 2000. "We joked about it but it was always on a low key."

Davis, 22, a recent West Point graduate, said Foley was an "extremely nice man," who was never light on flattery, often complimenting pages on their appearances.

The former page said he used to joke with one of his fellow classmates in particular.

"We used to tell him that Mark Foley was hitting on him," he said.

Brian Dugan of Scripps Howard Foundation Wire and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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