January 6 rioter who was pardoned by Trump arrested for child sexual abuse
Source: The Guardian
A man who took part in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol and was pardoned by Donald Trump earlier this year has been arrested on multiple child sexual abuse charges in Florida, according to local authorities.
The man, identified as 44-year-old Andrew Paul Johnson, was taken into custody in August in Tennessee and extradited to Florida where, according to arrest records, he faces charges of lewd and lascivious child molestation of a child under 12, lewd and lascivious child molestation of a child between 12 and 16, as well as lewd and lascivious exhibition, and transmission of material harmful to a minor.
A probable cause affidavit alleges that in July, the Hernando county sheriffs office received a report that two juveniles had fallen victim to lewd and lascivious acts over a many-month span. The report states that officers spoke with the mother of one of the children, who said that she discovered that Johnson, who was described as her ex-boyfriend who formerly lived in the house, had been sending inappropriate Discord messages to her son. The woman said she asked her son about the messages and also asked if Johnson had done or said anything inappropriate to which she said her son told her that between April 1 2024 and October 2024 Johnson had molested him three times, beginning when he was 11 years old.
The report also alleges that Johnson told the child that he was pardoned for storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and he was being awarded $10,000,000 as a result of being a jan 6er and that he would be putting him in his will to take any money he had left over. Investigators state that this tactic was believed to be used to keep the child from exposing what Andrew had done to him. Investigators state that this tactic was believed to be used to keep the child from exposing what Andrew had done to him.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/19/january-6-rioter-arrested-child-sexual-abuse-crimes?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
ck4829
(37,279 posts)Lovie777
(21,267 posts)WmChris
(531 posts)BlueKota
(4,959 posts)Surely one of those people who was just a peaceful "tourist on that1/6" would never have committed such a heinous act.
I guess they also play follow their orange leader in almost every aspect of their lives.
marble falls
(69,742 posts)efhmc
(15,965 posts)calimary
(88,620 posts)Sometimes we spell that MAGAts.
cannabis_flower
(3,914 posts)The woman who refused a pardon and renounced Trump. She seems to have realized she was in a cult
Hieronymus Phact
(707 posts)Wednesdays
(21,453 posts)...half of the J-6ers will be back in prison anyway.
Initech
(106,995 posts)Trump attracts a type!
popsdenver
(1,154 posts)the J6th insurrectionists will be given high paying, priority jobs in ICE...........Seriously, if not already happening.......
Bengus81
(9,629 posts)democrank
(12,014 posts)Right .Lets give those J6ers a huge financial reward.
twodogsbarking
(16,985 posts)republianmushroom
(22,122 posts)IronLionZion
(50,481 posts)BattleRow
(2,053 posts)niyad
(128,865 posts)COL Mustard
(7,851 posts)This guy was a drag queen!!!
(Im assuming hes not a drag queen, but they want to blame drag queens for anything like this.)
iemanja
(57,193 posts)as he did for the other recidivist criminal. Pedophiles of a feather . . .
The Democrats need to make campaign ads with this stuff.
BaronChocula
(3,848 posts)Gang
Of
Pedophiles
Fla Dem
(27,355 posts)jfz9580m
(16,199 posts)Aussie105
(7,463 posts)Bit of a bad planning thing there!
DrFunkenstein
(8,884 posts)Oh, wait. Did something happen to that guy? Wasn't he supposed to be in charge of the Epstein files as Attorney General? I guess like with Roy Moore, even Trump's best efforts to defend a child molester are sometimes not enough.