> 2023

Proof that Republicans are Pedophiles:

The Republican party is obsessed with children � in the creepiest of ways
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Osita Nwanevu

For all their posturing about defending children from abuse, their record
tells another story
Wed 30 Mar 2022 08.46 EDT
Last modified on Fri 1 Apr 2022 11.32 EDT

Republicans have kids on the brain. Over the course of the last year,
conservative activists and Republican state lawmakers have been whipping
up a set of interrelated moral panics over the supposed indoctrination of
children in our schools and child abuse � from the notion that elementary
school teachers are raising up junior divisions of the Black Panthers
with critical race theory to the insistence that trans people, who today
comprise less than half a percent of high-school athletes in the United
States, might soon bring an end to girls� sports. The word �grooming� is
now in wide circulation on the right ? � a dogwhistle that implies basic
education on LGBT identity and sex is priming kids for predation, perhaps
at the hands of the Satanic sex traffickers at the heart of QAnon�s
conspiracy theories.

All of this spilled into last week�s confirmation hearings for US supreme
court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, which Senate Republicans did their
best to derail by mischaracterizing her sentencing on cases on child
sexual abuse images. As has been widely reported, those sentences had
been entirely in keeping with sentences delivered by most federal judges
in comparable cases, including sentences delivered by Trump judicial
appointees with broad Republican support. But that mattered not a whit to
Republicans on the Hill. �Every judge who does what you�re doing is
making it easier for the children to be exploited,� Lindsey Graham told
Jackson in a heated exchange. Ted Cruz accused Jackson of �a record of
activism and advocacy as it concerns sexual predators that stems back
decades�.
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And Josh Hawley, best-known for defending Donald Trump�s allegations of
election fraud and cheering on the rioters at the Capitol on January 6,
led the pack with a fusillade of similar attacks on Jackson at the
hearings and on social media. �I�ve noticed an alarming pattern when it
comes to Judge Jackson�s treatment of sex offenders, especially those
preying on children,� he tweeted ahead of the hearings. �Judge Jackson
has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their
appalling crimes, both as a judge and as a policymaker.�

Again, the Republican attacks on Jackson�s record, like the rest of their
fearmongering about kids these days, have been ludicrous. It is true,
though, that one of our parties has proven itself remarkably willing to
defend sexual predators in recent years.

Here�s a genuinely alarming pattern the senator should take an interest
in. In 2016, former Republican speaker of the House Dennis Hastert ?was
convicted for trying to pay off men he had sexually abused as a high
school wrestling coach. His victims had been boys between the ages of 14
and 17 at the time. After Hastert had pleaded guilty to making a set of
payments, Hastert�s legal team compiled 41 letters in defense of his
character from friends and former colleagues, including Republican
congressmen David Dreier, Porter Goss, John Doolittle, Thomas Ewing, and
the former Republican House majority whip Tom DeLay. �We all have our
flaws, but Dennis Hastert has very few,� Delay wrote. �I ask that you
consider the man that is before you and give him leniency where you can.�
Unmoved, US district judge Thomas M Durkin sentenced Hastert to over a
year in prison. �Nothing is more stunning,� he said, �than to have the
words �serial child molester� and �speaker of the House� in the same
sentence.�

The Hastert case might have stunned more people if Americans hadn�t been
busy following the 2016 campaign, with its flurry of sex and other
scandals, at the time. But the sexual misconduct allegations that had
piled up against Donald Trump, from well over a dozen women by the year�s
end, have since been mostly forgotten by the press and the public ?�
including allegations from five contestants in Trump�s Miss Teen USA
pageants that he would walk into dressing rooms while girls as young as
15 were changing. Notably, Trump had previously boasted to Howard Stern
that he would intentionally walk in on undressing contestants in the
adult Miss USA pageants. �You know, they�re standing there with no
clothes,� he�d said in an appearance on Stern�s show. �And you see these
incredible-looking women ?� so I sort of get away with things like that.�
?In fairness to Trump, a number of Miss Teen USA contestants either
directly disputed the recollections of his accusers, or told reporters
they couldn�t remember Trump being present in the dressing rooms.

What is not in dispute is that Trump also happened to enjoy a friendship
of well over a decade with Jeffrey Epstein. This past December, a former
Miss Teen USA contestant testifying at the sex-trafficking trial of
Ghislaine Maxwell told the court that she had met Trump through Epstein
at the age of 14. That raises more questions about whether Trump knew of
Epstein�s activities ?� in 2002, he�d told a reporter that Epstein liked
women �on the younger side� ?� although it�s not at all obvious how much
he would have cared if he had. After Maxwell�s arrest in July 2020, Trump
told reporters that he had interacted with Maxwell socially �numerous
times� but hadn�t been following the case closely. �I just wish her well,
frankly,� he said.

Incredibly, Maxwell wasn�t the first accused accused sexual offender
Trump had wished well from the White House. In 2017, Alabama�s Republican
Senate candidate Roy Moore was accused of romantically and sexually
pursuing teenagers while in his 30s, including a woman who told the
Washington Post that Moore had molested her when she was 14. �On a second
visit, she says, he took off her shirt and pants and removed his
clothes,� the Post reported. �He touched her over her bra and underpants,
she says, and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear.�

Initially, Republicans met the allegations � which Moore denies � with
the kind of response one would expect from a responsible major party. The
Republican National Committee pulled its support from the campaign, and
Republican leaders including Republican party chairwoman Ronna Romney
McDaniel and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell called on Moore to
step aside. Then, about a month after the allegations broke, Trump
officially endorsed Moore by tweet. And, on the very same day, the
Republican National Committee recommitted itself to the Moore campaign.
�The RNC is the political arm of the president,� a senior RNC official
explained, �and we support the president.�

This is worth repeating. In 2017, the Republican party now babbling
nonsense about public schools and LGBTQ people grooming children for
sexual abuse ?� the party that spent the past week in the Senate arguing
that Democrats are soft on pedophiles ?� officially backed a credibly
accused child molester for election to that very body. If the Republican
National Committee had gotten its way, there�s a chance we would have
spent the past week hearing Roy Moore opine on Jackson�s ethical
qualifications. It�s a mercy of sorts that we heard instead from the
likes of Hawley who, as the White House noted earlier this month, refused
to say whether he�d vote for Moore during his own campaign.

The Republican party�s ambivalence on child abuse extends beyond pure
politics and the protection of accused politicians. Nearly 300,000
children between the ages of 15 to 17 were married in the United States
between 2000 and 2018. An estimated 60,000 of them were below the age of
sexual consent in their respective states; it�s thought that roughly 80%
of American child marriages overall are between girls under 18 and adult
men. Activists across the country have been pushing hard against those
figures over the last few years. And while resistance to child marriage
bans can be found on both sides of the ideological spectrum ?� which one
would expect given that child marriage was legal in all 50 states as
recently as 2017 � some of the most dogged defenders of the status quo
have been red-state Republicans. Not long ago, for instance, the Kansas
City Star called Josh Hawley�s state of Missouri �a destination wedding
spot for 15-year-old brides� � especially ones who had been impregnated
by men, thanks to uncommonly lax laws that facilitated the marriages of
more than 7,000 children between 2000 and 2014.

CROOKSTON, Minn. — A Minneapolis man could spend 30 years behind bars after being charged with raping a woman on Jefferson Lines bus on Friday afternoon.

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Mohamed Harir Ayanle, 22, has been charged with raping a female passenger on board a Jefferson Lines bus on Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, as the bus traveled between Minneapolis and Grand Forks, N.D. (Forum News Service)

Mohamed Harir Ayanle, 22, has been charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct by inducing fear of bodily harm, a felony punishable by up to 30 years in prison, and third-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

According to the criminal complaint, Crookston police were dispatched to the University of Minnesota-Crookston on a report of criminal sexual conduct on a Jefferson Lines bus traveling between Minneapolis and Grand Forks, N.D. The victim told dispatchers another passenger threatened her with a knife and made her have sex with him.

Police pulled the bus over and talked with Ayanle, who fit the suspect description. They did not find weapons on him. The victim said the man approached her when she was sitting with her daughter, and invited her to come watch a movie with him in the back of the bus when the daughter fell asleep, shortly after the stop in Bemidji.

She told officers she went with him because he told her “he had something,” which she believed was a knife, though she never said she saw a knife. Once in the back seat, the victim said, Ayanle forcibly removed her clothing and raped her.

When questioned by investigators, Ayanle said the two had intercourse but that it was consensual, according to the complaint. He denied threatening her.

Ayanle was released from custody Monday on a $5,000 bond on the condition that he does not leave Minnesota. His next court appearance is scheduled for Jan. 3.

https://www.twincities.com/2016/12/12/minneapolis-man-charged-with-raping-female-passenger-on-intercity-bus/

>OKS

All Trumpers are savages, not just the black ones.

Why are Trumpers always criminals?

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Donta Devon Walton/Dakota County Jail

Warning: This report contains details about sexual assault that some may find disturbing.

An Eagan felon on parole who was previously charged with attempted murder has been newly charged in Dakota County with several felonies related to the armed sexual assault of a 19-year-old woman last week.

Donta Devon Walton, 23, was charged in Dakota County Court on Thursday with four felony counts, including first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving the use of a dangerous weapon, second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, domestic assault by strangulation, and felon in possession of a firearm.

Charges say Eagan police were dispatched just before 3 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 16, to the intersection of Highway 13 and Silver Bell Road on a report of a sexual assault that had occurred at a residence nearby. The victim told police she’d met the man she knew as “De’Sean” two to three weeks prior through Facebook. Police were later able to determine the identity of the male as Walton.

The victim said she was dropped off by a friend the night before at an Eagan address on the 3800 block of Willow Way. The victim said she and the male were watching a show when he told her he wanted to have sex. She said she didn’t want to, but the male put his weight against her, held her down, and raped her while the victim tried to fight him off by kicking and pushing. Charges say Walton put his hand over the victim’s mouth and choked her so she couldn’t scream. Walton finally stopped after the victim continued to kick him. She told Walton she wanted to go home and went out into the driveway to text a friend.

When Walton started to go back into the house, the victim tried to run away, but Walton grabbed her and pulled her into the garage, charges say. The victim told police that Walton pulled a gun on her and threatened to shoot her if she didn’t have sex with him again. The victim told police that Walton said he had shot people before, so he was serious. The victim said Walton held a gun to her head while having sex with her again on the garage floor and threatened to shoot her if she moved. The victim said she was bleeding from the assault and Walton took her bloody clothes and gave her a pair of pants. He told her not to tell anyone about the assault or innocent people would get hurt. The victim said Walton called an Uber and left the house, at which time she left the house and called police.

The victim was transported to a hospital where she underwent a sexual assault exam that revealed injuries.

Police obtained Uber account records for Walton’s account that showed a transaction for a pickup outside the Willow Way address and a drop off at a Robbinsdale address on the 4000 block of 47th Avenue North, which police believed to be Walton’s mother’s house.

Police subsequently learned that Walton may have been staying at an apartment in the City of New Hope on the 8100 block of Bass Lake Road. Police obtained and executed a search warrant at the property where they located Walton and took him into custody Wednesday afternoon. Police also located a black handgun wrapped in a shirt that was hidden in a kitchen cabinet. The gun matched the description by the victim as well as a photo Walton had previously sent of the gun to the victim, which showed the serial number. Police also found the clothing and shoes the victim described that Walton had been wearing.

Walton has a prior conviction on felon in possession of a firearm for a 2018 incident where charges say Walton shot a man exiting from a Metro Transit bus in Minneapolis after the two had been involved in an argument with others aboard the bus. Four other charges of attempted murder, and first- and second-degree assault were dismissed in the case upon conviction by Judge Kathryn L. Quaintance.

Donta was sentenced to 60 months in prison on the gun conviction. Department of Corrections records show that Donta was released from custody on parole in May 2022. DOC records indicate that he has been under “intensive supervised release” since then.

Walton made his first court appearance on the new rape and assault charges on Friday and remains in custody on $600,000 bail.

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https://alphanews.org/eagan-felon-on-parole-charged-in-armed-sexual-assault/