Seattle Mayor resigns amid sexual abuse allegations

Murray said he was stepping aside just hours after the Seattle Times reported that his younger cousin, Joseph Dyer, accused him of abuse.

"While the allegations against me are not true, it is important that my personal issues do not affect the ability of our City government to conduct the public's business," Mr Murray said in a statement on Tuesday. Murray, 62, said that he was "proud of all that I have accomplished" but added that due to the reported accusations "it is best for the city if I step aside".

Dyer, 54, said that he was 13 in the mid 1970s when he was forced by his elder cousin, Murray, to have sex in his mother's home in New York. Murray, a former Democratic state representative who is in a gay marriage, says that he is the target of a political campaign aimed at stifling his progressive politics and tarnishing his record as a gay-rights champion.

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