Mayor Ed Murray denies allegations that he sexually abused teenagers in the 1980s.
Mayor Ed Murray denies allegations that he sexually abused teenagers in the 1980s. David Ryder / getty

In a request submitted to King County Superior Court this morning, the lawyer for a man who has accused Mayor Ed Murray of sexually abusing him as a child says he wants to depose the mayor on May 2.

Lincoln Beauregard, who represents a man identified only as D.H., writes that the mayor "can expect to be questioned about the facts of this case including the various potential causes of the medical matters referenced publicly by his attorneys in a news conference on April 11, 2017."

D.H. alleges Murray paid him $10 to $20 for sex at least 50 times over four to five years while the man was a teenager and Murray was in his 30s. The complaint in the case alleges that D.H. knows Murray’s previous phone number, old address, layout of that apartment, and details about his body, including a "distinctive genital region including reddish pubic hair and a unique mole on his scrotum—it is a small bump."

Last night, Murray's lawyer, Robert Sulkin, gave reporters a document from Murray's doctor saying he has no moles or bumps or signs of such marks being removed.

"Those medical causes could include multiple medical complications stemming from having promiscuous sex with multiple child prostitutes," Beauregard writes. "Bumps, warts, and/or moles do not always remain 30 years, depending upon the root cause."

Along with the man in the lawsuit, two other men told the Seattle Times Murray abused them around the same time.

Sulkin told the Seattle Times that the mayor does not know who the accuser in the lawsuit is and "is in no position to answer questions until he does."

The Times reports that May 2—the date Beauregard wants to depose Murray and about two and a half weeks before the deadline for new mayoral candidates to file to run for office—is the mayor's 62nd birthday.