House Dem leader says he's sad over lawmaker sexting report

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana House Minority Leader Scott Pelath (PEE'-lath) says he won't make any hasty recommendations about a lawmaker's future following an online report that he sent nude photographs of himself and gifts to a woman linked to a sex scandal involving former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner.

Pelath said Thursday he was sad to learn of Rep. Justin Moed's situation. Moed hasn't been at the Statehouse in recent days, and Pelath says he doesn't know when then second-term Democrat from Indianapolis will return.

Moed has apologized for what he calls "poor judgment" after a report on a website that identified him as a "sexting" partner of a woman named Sydney Leathers. She's a former Princeton resident who claimed to have had online sex chats with New York congressman Weiner in 2013.