Republican Sex Crimes Involving Minors & Children List
86 Republicans who committed sex crimes involving minors since 2000


Crime
Date(s)
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2016
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2016
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2017
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11/16/24
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2006
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2021Spiked his 17-year-old student's drinks with alcohol without her knowledge while he was out partying with her and other high school students at New Orlean's bars known for loosely enforcing their liquor laws and later had sex with her in his hotel room that night
3 felonies
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2024, 2023Solicited a sexual encounter with 13-year-old girl over the internet and drove to meet her in a local park only to get arrested by police who posed as the young girl.
He also produced felony videos and images of underage and barely legal girls performing sex acts with him and used them to coerce other underage girls into sex.
8 felonies
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2021
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3/11/25Exchanged felony media with numerous underage girls as young as 13 years old and engaged in highly sexualized chats with a number of underage girls that depicted explicit sex acts involving children
8 felonies
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2018Coerced 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 report them to the police if they didn't submit to his sexual demands while also being married
20 years prison & $100k fine
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2022
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2025, 2023Traveled to the Czech Republic for the purpose of paying to have sex with minors under the age of 18 multiple times over a five-year period. He also downloaded felony images depicting children being sexually abused and tried to conceal his identity by using fake online personas.
2 felonies
10 years prison & registered as sex offender
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3/20/25Solicited sex with who he thought was a 17-year-old girl after exchanging multiple sexually explicit texts and was arrested by police when he showed up at their agreed-upon rendezvous point while also being a married father with four children
1 felony
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1/10/25Initiated a two-year sexual relationship with an 16-year-old high school girl who was one of his students as a substitute teacher
2 felonies
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2019
4 felonies
2 years prison & 8 years probation
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2012Molested 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
113 felonies
registered as sex offender & 1 year probation
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2019, 2017Paid 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 of four young children and an avid supporter of Anti-LGBT legislation who proclaimed he was a "family values Republican." He also had a laptop with multiple felony videos of sex acts between a man and a very young girl.
4 felonies
15 unknown prison, 10 unknown probation & $17.1m fine
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2016Gave alcohol to underage male camp counselors as young as 16-years-old and also filmed and photographed many of the boys completely naked playing strip poker in his bedroom
1 felony, 3 misdemeanors
1 year diversion program & 1 year probation
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2018Allegedly 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, had sex with her when she was 17 and not legally able to consent in the state of California 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
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6/13/25
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2014Paid $300 to have sex with a 16-year-old girl who told him she was a virgin and smothered her with his body weight after she tried to push him off of her
2 felonies
registered as sex offender, 6 years probation & $2k fine
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2023Secretly recorded two of his live-in girlfriend’s teenage children getting undressed via hidden camera he set up at their home
1 felony
4 years prison
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2025, 2021Sexually assaulted a girl between 4 and 8 years old multiple times over a multiyear period when her family visited his home. He also molested a 4-year-old girl and masturbated in front of her while he watched pornographic videos.
5 felonies
6 months jail & 10 years probation
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2023Solicited 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
1 felony
5 years prison & registered as sex offender
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2023Engaged in multiple sex acts including penetrative sex with a 15-year-old boy over a two-month period
3 felonies
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2021Produced and distributed over 300 felony images and 40 videos of two underage girls he secretly recorded in various stages of undress with a hidden camera and was also found in possession of over 100,000 images and 1,000 videos depicting children participating in sexual conduct when police arrested him
1 felony
15 years prison & $56k fine
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2022Solicited 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
1 felony
registered as sex offender & 5 years probation
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3/20/25
2 felonies
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2023
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3/25/24
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8/26/25Solicited sex with who he thought was a 14-year-old girl but was instead an undercover police office and also sent her inappropriate images of himself at least twice while also being self-proclaimed "family values" conservative who once authored a weekly nationally syndicated column that discussed the topic
3 felonies
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2022
2 felonies
12.5 years prison & registered as sex offender
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7/24/25Sent multiple nude photos of himself to a 12-year-old girl he preyed on via Snapchat over a monthslong period while also being married
24 felonies
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2022Downloaded roughly 600 felony images and videos of prepubescent minors and made them publicly available on a peer-to-peer file sharing program so others could access them too
2 felonies
14 years prison, registered as sex offender & 15 years probation
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6/12/25Shared felony media depicting underage children to a social messaging platform at least ten different times while also being a married father of young children who is a self-proclaimed "family values" Christian
10 felonies
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6/09/25Solicited sex from a 14-year-old boy and sent them a nude photo of himself via the gay app Grindr. He also solicited sex from and exchanged nude photos with multiple underage boys on the app over a 10-year period.
2 felonies
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4/02/25Had roughly 1,000 videos depicting explicit sex acts involving prepubescent and underage girls saved on his phone and tablet which he quickly admitted to ownership of after US Customs officials flagged him for a secondary inspection when his flight arrived in the US
1 felony
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2/16/25Sexually abused a child under the age of 16 who was receiving care at the mental health clinic he owned
3 felonies
restraining order
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2/12/25Inappropriately hugged and grabbed the bottom of a female pupil who was under 12-years-old after she asked him for help on a school assignment while working as a teacher at a local Christian school
1 felony
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2020Performed sexual acts on a girl younger than 16 years old and tried to get her to do the same to him after providing her alcoholic drinks and also had 100+ felony images of children stored on his devices. He failed to appear for his first court appearance and went on the lam in 2023.
18 felonies
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8/26/24
2 felonies
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2018Used hidden cameras to secretly record over 100 graphic videos of young boys and was found in possession of 280 images and 54 videos depicting prepubescent children engaging in sexually explicit conduct
4 felonies
16.7 years prison, registered as sex offender & 100 years probation
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4/30/25Possessed 565 felony images of prepubescent children as young as twelve-years-old on his electronic devices
1 felony
4.8 years prison, registered as sex offender & 5 years probation
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6/14/24Digitally penetrated, groped and kissed a twelve-year-old girl over a multiyear period and only got caught after she told her parents once he began pressuring her to have sex with him when she turned sixteen while also being married with a young child
5 felonies
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11/05/24
8 felonies
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11/01/24
1 felony
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2004Pulled his shorts down and exposed his penis to an 11-year-old girl who had come over to play with his new puppy after
1 felony
160 hours community service, counseling & 7 years probation
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1/09/24Routinely sexually assaulted an underage girl over a seven-year period that began when she was only 8 years old and culminated in near-daily assaults before he was caught while also being a married father of five children
1 felony
12 years prison, restraining order & registered as sex offender
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2023
2 felonies
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2025 - 2024Raped and sexually assaulted numerous children including at least one prepubescent boy and a teenage girl over a decadelong period and documented many of his heinous and depraved acts in 100+ videos and images that he recorded himself and others that he solicited from his victims.
60 felonies
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2/19/24Physically grabbed a 14-year-old boy and threatened to rape him at a crowded high school volleyball tournament but the teen was able to escape his grasp and run to the authorities who used surveillance footage to identify and arrest him
1 felony
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2013Purchased multiple DVDs and digital videos of "young nude boys" and downloaded numerous felony videos from a peer-to-peer website including one that depicted a young girl being raped in the woods by a man who was supposedly her father and shared many of them online with other individuals over a yearslong period
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4/25/24
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3/11/24Digitally penetrated his 13-year-old daughter after drugging her with a sedative and removing all her clothes while she was unconscious. He also sexually abused a 15-year-old and possessed “hundreds of thousands" of felony images depicting child pornography on his electronic devices.
65 felonies
4 life sentences
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2015
17 felonies
1 year prison
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2022Sexually abused 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. He also possessed at least 33 videos of young children depicting various sex acts on his cellphone.
1 felony
5.5 years prison & 5 years probation
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2022Had at least 153 videos, pictures and screenshots depicting prepubescent girls being sexually abused and exploited on his home computer
2 felonies
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2018Rubbed his hands in-between the thighs of a 10-year-old girl, cupped her buttocks, put his hands up her shirt and gave her massages with a battery-powered device that wasn't remotely age-appropriate while ignoring her repeated pleas for him to stop
4 felonies
counseling & 4 years probation
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2016Sent explicit texts to a 17-year-old boy 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
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2022Performed 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 him
2 felonies
registered as sex offender & 5 years probation
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2022Sexually molested at least three young children as young as 7 years old on different occasions at his home over a multiyear period
3 felonies
45 years prison
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2023Paid 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
4 felonies
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2022
2 felonies
10 years probation
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2019Allegedly performed and received oral sex from two teenage boys as young as 13 in exchange for $10 after propositioning them in a park back in 1983 despite one of the boys also being developmentally disabled. He then continued to have oral and penetrative sex with one of his victims an additional ten times and was also charged with two counts of possession of explicit media of minors.
5 felonies
208 hours community service, treatment program & 5 years probation
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2023Groped, kissed and placed the hands of a 16-year-old boy on his erect penis during a meeting in his government office under the guise of a website design project. He later pursued the boy further through texts saying that he's "dying to sleep with" him and sent a picture of his exposed penis from his bathtub asking him to join him. He also "knowingly received sexually explicit images that the boy had taken of himself in the shower" according to federal investigators.
3 felonies
6 years prison & 15 years probation
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2007Digitally 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 while also being their trusted caregiver and a married father
4 felonies
44 years prison
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2022Raped 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
3 felonies, 1 misdemeanor
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2023Coerced a teenage girl into sending him a picture of her breasts in exchange for VIP Taylor Swift concert tickets he supposedly had and later cornered her in his office and refused to let her leave until she showed him her breasts in person after she went there to collect the tickets at his insistence, but she was able to flee and tell her dad what happened
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2023
1 felony
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2022Sexually molested a 13-year-old girl he spent years cultivating a relationship with at church and in the community while also being married
1 felony
2.8 years prison & 30 years probation
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2013Made 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
1 felony
1 year prison, registered as sex offender & 5 years probation
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2002
7 felonies
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2022Possessed and distributed felony images of underage girls as an administrator of an online child pornography group
1 felony
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2004Repeatedly raped and sexually violated a young girl over a ten-year period beginning when she was only six years old
2 felonies
8 years prison & 2 years probation
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2023Molested a 12-year-old girl he met online who promptly told her legal guardian about his actions which led to his arrest and placement on house arrest until the conclusion of his trial
6 felonies
restraining order
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2021Recruited 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
7 felonies
3 years prison & 5 years probation
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2021Sodomized 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
2 felonies
26 years prison & registered as sex offender
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2017
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2018
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2021Paid 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" and supplied them with alcohol and literal stacks of cash as an incentive
10 felonies
21 years prison
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11/26/24Had 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
5 felonies
120 days house arrest, 4 years probation & $1k fine
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2018
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2022Collected a whopping 152 felony videos and 50 felony images of children -- some who were babies -- and traded them with other criminals he found online
1 felony
12.5 years prison
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2022Solicited sex with a 13-year-old girl over the internet and sent her pictures of his erect penis not realizing he was actually communicating with an undercover police officer at the same time he was the political director for a prominent anti-abortion organization that espoused far-right "family values"
1 felony
5 years prison
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2022Raped, 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
2 felonies
10 years prison & $20k fine
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2021Paid an underage girl for sexual encounters seven times and introduced her to other men who also engaged in sexual acts with her
33 felonies
11 years prison