Republican Sex Crimes Involving Minors

Displaying 1 - 50 of 55 Scandals
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State Sen. Ray Holmberg [R-ND]Acceptied felony images depicting children being sexually abused under fake online personas he created ostensibly to avoid getting caught
30 Oct 2023
According to charging documents filed by federal officials
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State Sen. Ray Holmberg [R-ND]
30 Oct 2023
According to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Aide Kevin TomafskyPaid the father of a six-year-old girl to engage in a sex act involving penetration and was later found to be in possession of a felony image of a child forced to do similar things
01 Sep 2023
According to charging documents filed by local police first reported by the New Jersey Globe
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Rene Pedrosa [Spokesperson]Texted a 16-year-old boy that he's "dying to sleep with" him and let the boy know he was home alone if he wanted to come by, which the boy declined and reminded him that he was a minor
14 Aug 2023
According to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Rene Pedrosa [Spokesperson]Asked a 16-year-old boy to send him sexually explicit pictures of himself in the shower and in return sent the boy a picture of his exposed penis from inside his bathtub
14 Aug 2023
According to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Rene Pedrosa [Spokesperson]Cupped a 16-year-old boy's buttocks and kissed him on the lips before grabbing his hand and placing it on his erect penis while meeting with him in his government office ostensibly to discuss having him help design a web page
14 Aug 2023
According to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Alliance for a Pro-Life Alabama Chair Cole Wagner
24 Jul 2023
According to charging documents filed by local officials first reported by the Alabama Political Reporter
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City Council Member Matthew Reilly [R-RI]Molested a 12-year-old girl and was ordered to be held without bail due to the seriousness of his crimes
08 Jun 2023
According to charging documents filed by local police first reported by The Providence Journal
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Influencer Ali AlexanderSolicited nude pictures from a 15-year-old boy by promising him that he'll share his "entire network" of right-wing friends with the aspiring young activist if he complied
20 Apr 2023
According to an exclusive report by The Daily Beast
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GOP Donor Kent StermonCoerced a teenage girl into showing him her breasts in order to get VIP Taylor Swift concert tickets he supposedly had then offered to pay the girl's father thousands of dollars to stay quiet
18 Apr 2023
According to a police report filed by local officials after he committed suicide -
Influencer Ali AlexanderAsked a 17-year-old boy to send him a picture of his penis by texting "show me ur [eggplant emjoi]" and replying "Omg d*ck" when the boy asked what the emoji meant
17 Apr 2023
According to an exclusive report by The Daily Beast
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GOP County Chair Rocky Hayes [R-SD]Had multiple felony videos of young children between the ages of 8 to 13 doing sexual acts with older men saved on his cloud services account
26 Jan 2023
According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by the Sioux Falls Argus Leader -
Mayor Ted Tomaszewski [R-NJ]Engaged in multiple sex acts including penetrative sex with a 15-year-old boy over a two-month period
17 Jan 2023
According to charging documents filed by local police
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Aide Joel Sartori
20 Dec 2022
According to charging documents by local officials
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Chief of Police William Pruitt [R-FL]Raped a 14-year-old girl twice at gunpoint after luring her into his truck, threatened to "blow her brains out" if she ever told anyone, conspired with friends who were former police officers to send a torrent of threatening messages to scare her from reporting it to the authorities, and continued to stalk her even after being charged with raping her
09 Dec 2022
According to charging documents filed by local police
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Deputy District Attorney Kevin Etherington [R-OK]Had at least 153 videos, pictures, and screenshots depicting prepubescent girls being sexually abused and exploited on his home computer
05 Dec 2022
According to charging documents filed by local police
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Joel Koskan [2022 GOP SD State Rep. Nominee]Raped, orally penetrated, and sexually molested his adopted daughter over a six-year period beginning when she was just twelve years old and waged an intimidation campaign to keep her quiet by monitoring her every move via GPS and home video surveillance, which ironically is how he found out she reported him to the police while also being a married father of young children who frequently espoused the virtues of traditional family values
03 Nov 2022
According to charging documents filed by local officials
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Aide Adam HagemanAdmitted to sexually abusing a child as young as 12-years-old and wrote about wanting to have sex with children between 12 and 16 in an online group chat
30 Sep 2022
According to charging documents filed by federal officials -
Aide Adam Hageman
30 Sep 2022
According to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Mayor James Montgomery [R-TX]Solicited sex with who he thought was a 15-years-old girl over the internet and traveled to meet her where he was arrested by undercover officers who posed as the young girl
25 Aug 2022
According to charging documents filed by local officials
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Texas Right to Life Exec Luke BowenSolicited sex with a minor over the internet not realizing it was an undercover officer while working as the political director for a prominent anti-abortion organization that espouses far-right "family values"
25 Aug 2022
According to charging documents filed by Assistant District Attorney Kelly Blackburn
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Oklahoma College Republicans Chair Jonathan HernandezPerformed oral sex on a 14-year-old boy he met at a church he ministered inside his dorm room at Oklahoma Christian University after watching adult videos with the boy inside his dorm room
11 Jul 2022
According to charging documents filed by local police
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Commissioner Richard Braswell [R-NC]Sexually molested a 13-year-old girl he spent years cultivating a relationship with at church and in the community while also being married
29 Jun 2022
According to charging documents filed by local officials
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Mayor Matt McIlravy [R-TX]Solicited sex with who he thought was a 12-year-old girl but was instead an undercover police officer over a series of private messages on the internet while also being a married father of two boys
22 Jun 2022
According to charging documents filed by local police
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Commissioner Jimmy Neal [R-TN]Possessed and distributed felony images of young girls as an administrator of an online child pornography group
27 May 2022
According to charging documents filed by federal officials -
RNC Staffer Ruben VerastiguiCollected a whopping 152 felony videos and 50 felony images of children -- some who were babies -- and traded them with other criminals he found online
08 Apr 2022
According to charging documents filed by federal prosecutors -
City Council Member Elgene Gary [R-LA]
21 Feb 2022
According to charging documents filed by local police
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State House Speaker Lee Chatfield [R-MI]Allegedly raped and sexually abused a minor over many years beginning when she was fifteen years old and continued well into her adulthood while being married the entire time
07 Jan 2022
According to a lawsuit filed by the alleged victim and reported by local media -
Gisela Castro Medina [College Republican Chair]Recruited five underage girls to have sex with her accomplice Anton Lazzaro who lured her into the scheme by paying her hundreds of dollars for every girl she found and getting her addicted to Adderall which he supplied
14 Aug 2021
According to a federal indictment announced by the Department of Justice -
Strategist Anton LazzaroPaid five underage girls to have sex with him that he found by paying a woman to recruit them online telling them he's a "sugar daddy"
12 Aug 2021
According to a federal indictment announced by the Department of Justice -
GOP Donor Mark GrethenSodomized and molested two children one year before he was named "Republican of the Year" by the National Republican Congressional Committee because of his large donations to the party
07 Aug 2021
He was found guilty and was sentenced to 26 years in prison
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Tax Collector Joel Greenberg [R-FL]Paid an underage girl for sexual encounters seven times and introduced her to other men who also engaged in sexual acts with her
17 May 2021
He pled guilty to sex trafficking of a minor and was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison -
Mayor Kevin Hohn [R-FL]Produced and distributed over 300 images and 40 videos of children he secretly recorded in various stages of undress -- including the shower and their bedrooms -- and was also found in possession of over 100 images depicting children participating in sexual conduct when police arrested him
20 Feb 2021
According to charging documents filed by federal officials
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State Sen. Mike Folmer [R-PA]
18 Sep 2019
According to charging documents filed by local officials
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State Rep. David Stringer [R-AZ]Paid two underage boys -- one who was developmentally disabled -- he met in a park $10 each to perform oral sex on them and then had them perform oral sex on him
30 Mar 2019
According to an exclusive report by the Arizona Republic
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State Rep. David Stringer [R-AZ]Had oral and penetrative sex with an underage boy as young as 13-years-old on ten separate occasions and got caught when the boy's father found out and reported him to the police
29 Mar 2019
According to an exclusive report by the Arizona Republic
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State Sen. Ralph Shortey [R-OK]Paid for sex with a 17-year-old minor boy he found on Craigslist at a local Super 8 Motel while also being a married father with four young children and an avid supporter of Anti-LGBT legislation who proudly proclaimed he was a “family values Republican”
01 Feb 2019
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Judge Tim Nolan [R-KY]Coerced seven underage girls in to performing sex acts with him, supplied them with heroin and other opioids, and threatened to take the drugs away and call the police on them if they didn't submit to his sexual demands while also being married
04 May 2018
He pleaded guilty to human trafficking and was sentenced to 20 years in prison
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State Rep. David Byrd [R-TN]Inappropriately touched and kissed three underage girls on the high school basketball team he coached while also being married with young children
27 Mar 2018
According to firsthand accounts of the alleged victims first reported by local a TV station
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Scott Baio [Conservative Actor]Allegedly sexually abused actress Nicole Eggert over a 3-year period in which she said he "penetrated me with his finger" when she was only 14, coerced her into having sex with him when she was 17, and engaged in "a lot of groping, a lot of fondling, a lot of pulling me on his lap" while on the set of Charles in Charge
30 Jan 2018
According to the alleged victim who went public with her accusations against him -
State Rep. Brandon Hixon [R-ID]
11 Jan 2018
According to an exclusive interview with his ex-wife who found out and turned him in -
State Rep. Dan Johnson [R-KY]Digitally penetrated, fondled and forcibly kissed a 17-year-old member of his church in the basement of his home as she begged him to stop while also being married
11 Dec 2017
According to an investigate report by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting
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State Sen. Ralph Shortey [R-OK]Had multiple felony videos that police said "depicts a man engaging in sexually explicit conduct with a prepubescent girl" on his laptop when police found him in a hotel room with an underage boy
20 Nov 2017
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City Council Member Jeff Miller [R-IN]Molested two underage girls a at least 20 separate times by massaging in-between their thighs, rubbing their shoulders, cupping their buttocks, and other inappropriate actions and ignored their repeated please for him to stop
17 Nov 2017
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Roy Moore [2017 GOP AL Senator Nominee]Allegedly molested a 14-year-old girl by undressing and groping her over her underwear and bra in addition to having her place her hand over his underwear when he was a 32-year-old lawyer
09 Nov 2017
According to multiple collaborated witnesses in an investigative report by The Washington Post
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Alderman Mike Yenni [R-LA]Sent explicit texts to a minor asking if he and a 19-year-old friend of his would have three-way sex with him and for pictures of him in his underwear -- which may have violated a federal law designed to protect children from online obscenity even if it didn't violate his state's age of consent law -- leading to them eventually meeting in which he kissed him at a mall all while being married
29 Sep 2016
According to an exclusive investigative report by WWL-TV
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Mayor Anthony Silva [R-CA]Gave alcohol to underage male camp counselors as young as 16-years-old then filmed and photographed many of the boys getting completely naked as they played strip poker in his bedroom
04 Aug 2016
According to charging documents filed by local police
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Speaker Dennis Hastert [R-IL]Sexually abused and molested four teenage boys -— the youngest being only 14-years-old —- during his time as a high school educator and wrestling coach while he was married
10 Apr 2016
According to court filings submitted by federal prosecutors
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Aide Matthew Pennell [R-KS]
07 Mar 2015
According to charging documents filed by local officials
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CEO Shawn BergstrandMade arrangements to have sex with an underage girl by agreeing to pay a woman he thought was offering to prostitute her daughter in exchange for money over a series of email and text messages
26 Jul 2013
According to charging documents filed by local police
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Eric Bodenweiser [2012 GOP DE State Sen. Nominee]Molested and sexually abused a 10-year-old boy over a period of three years while propagating "family values" as a bedrock principal of his political philosophy at the same time
22 Oct 2012
He pled guilty to a less serious charge of unlawful sexual contact of a minor and was sentenced to one year probation and had to register as a sex offender
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State Rep. Ted Klaudt [R-SD]Digitally penetrated and fondled his 16 and 18-year-old foster daughters' breasts after deceitfully convincing them to let him perform "tests" on their private areas ostensibly to determine if they were good candidates to donate their eggs in exchange for a large sum of money despite being their trusted caregiver and a married father
18 May 2007
According to charging documents filed by local police
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Rep. Mark Foley [R-FL]Offerred a 17-year-old boy working as a Congressional page oral sex in exchange for free lodgings at his home at the same time he was chair of a special Congressional committee dedicated to protecting exploited children
02 Nov 2006
According to voluminous reports filed by mainstream media outlets
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County Commissioner David Swartz [R-OH]Repeatedly raped and sexually violated a young girl over a ten-year period beginning when she was just six years old
03 Feb 2004
According to charging documents filed by local officials
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State Rep. Keith Westmoreland [R-TN]
18 Jun 2002
According to charging documents filed by local police