Liberal comedian Bill Maher praised Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> this week for taking the fight to Disney over their sexualization of children.
Maher, host of HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher,&#8221; made the remarks during his &#8220;new rule&#8221; segment on his show on Friday, which was about Hollywood&#8217;s sexualization of children.
&#8220;Have you all been watching the Max documentary called &#8216;Quiet On Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV&#8217;? OMG. Nickelodeon, it wasn&#8217;t a studio, it was Neverland Ranch with Kraft services,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;It is just scene after scene, clip after clip, of the child stars of their day being subjected to obviously inappropriate highly sexualized degradation, and quite a few pickles going through glory holes.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if this documentary is the talk of your town, but it is out here because it didn&#8217;t just expose a dangerous workplace, it also exposed hypocrisy because it must be pointed out that when the evil governor of Florida was saying the exact same thing about kids and creepy stuff at Disney — that liberals now find intolerable at Nickelodeon — he was dismissed as a hick and a bigot,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But why would a kids content factory like Disney be all that different than the one at Nickelodeon? A 2014 CNN report discovered that at least 35 Disney employees had been arrested for sex crimes against children.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, Willie Sutton said he robbed banks because that&#8217;s where the money is. And the reason we find pedophiles in the Boy Scouts and the rectory and kids TV is that&#8217;s where the kids are,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;DeSantis wasn&#8217;t wrong, but we&#8217;re so tribal now, the Left will overlook child f***ing if the guy from the wrong party calls it out. Sure, Nickelodeon messed up Amanda Bynes, but the Mickey Mouse Club was where Britney Spears got her start and she&#8217;s perfectly fine.&#8221;
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&#8220;And get this, after Brian Peck, who was one of the lead creeps at Nickelodeon served 16 months in prison for the molesting he did there, Disney hired him — naturally to work on a children&#8217;s series,&#8221; he added. &#8220;For pedophiles in Hollywood, it&#8217;s a small world after all.&#8221;
Maher mocked leftists who say that &#8220;this is wrong and this is bad and exposing kids to an adult world of lurid costumes and garish makeup borders on abuse&#8221; yet they take their kids to drag queen story hour.
&#8220;Sure kids love a clown, but does the clown have to have t**s?&#8221; Maher asked. &#8220;And when I see a 5-year-old tipping — tipping — at a bar under a sign that says, &#8216;It&#8217;s Not Going To Lick Itself,&#8217; do I have to pretend that&#8217;s cool in order to keep my liberal ID card? Sorry, I can&#8217;t do that.&#8221;
He said that progressives were wrong, they&#8217;re not &#8220;adults wise beyond their years, they&#8217;re morons.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re gullible morons who&#8217;ll believe anything and just want to please grown ups,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And they don&#8217;t have any frame of reference, so they normalize whatever is happening. That&#8217;s why endlessly talking about gender to six year olds isn&#8217;t just inappropriate, it&#8217;s what the law would call entrapment, which means enticing people into doing something they wouldn&#8217;t ordinarily do.&#8221;
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Maher Touts DeSantis’ Fight Against Disney To Protect Kids: ‘The Left Will Overlook Child F***Ing’ If Republican Calls It Out

Bill Maher

Child Abuse

Media

Ron DeSantis

U.S.

A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> bill that would make purchasing child sex a felony up from a misdemeanor moved forward on Tuesday, but not before Democrats made significant changes.
The bipartisan <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1414" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> would raise solicitation of a minor from a misdemeanor to a felony punishable by up to four years in prison, and a fine of up to $25,000. The bill would also require a person convicted of soliciting a minor to register as a sex offender for 10 years.
However, the new version of the bill would only allow prosecutors to level felony charges if the minor was under 16, meaning those who attempted to buy sex with a 16-year-old or 17-year-old could still only be charged with a misdemeanor.
On Tuesday, Democrats on the Senate Public Safety Committee <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1414" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> the bill after making this and several other changes.
The bill&#8217;s author, Republican State Senator Shannon Grove, reacted with dismay to the new amendments, her voice <a href="https://www.kcra.com/article/california-sb-1414-passes-changes-made-groves/60515287" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shaking</a> as she responded.
&#8220;To force these amendments on me in front of survivors, to water this down to avoid 16 and 17-year-olds,&#8221; Grove said.
In a statement after the committee hearing, Grove criticized the &#8220;hostile amendments&#8221; to her bill.
Under the new version, buyers would still be &#8220;ineligible for prison&#8221; even if the child they solicited was 15 or younger, she <a href="https://sr12.senate.ca.gov/content/sen-groves-measure-make-purchasing-child-sex-felony-rejected-senate-public-safety-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
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“I’m incredibly disappointed that not only did my colleagues reject my proposal to make the buying of children for sex a prison felony, but that I was blindsided when they amended my bill without my consent,&#8221; Grove said.
“Unfortunately, the members of the public safety committee continue their soft on crime approach at the expense of California’s most vulnerable, our children,&#8221; she added.
Last week, Grove explained that she spoke to sex trafficking survivors last year who told her, “You’ve got to go after the buyers” in order to really crack down on the child sex trade.
“I want to make the solicitation, the person who’s going out there going, ‘Hey little 13-year-old, 14-year-old, 15-year-old, I want to get that person. I want that person to face felony charges. That’s what the bill does,” Grove said during a phone interview with The Daily Wire.
The Democrat who moved to amend the bill was State Senator Nancy Skinner, who represents the Berkeley area. Two other Democrats, Scott Wiener and committee chairwoman Aisha Wahab voted to move forward with the amendments against Grove&#8217;s will.
Wiener, who represents the San Francisco area, previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-signs-bill-making-california-sanctuary-for-child-gender-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sponsored</a> a law in 2020 that says adults who have oral or anal sex with a child ten years younger than them may not have to register as sex offenders, leaving that decision to a judge. The law supposedly addressed discrimination against LGBT people.
In 2022, Wiener sponsored another law that made California a sanctuary state for child transgender surgery, prohibiting doctors and officials from cooperating with out-of-state attempts to stop a child from getting puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or gender surgery.

Lonely boy and his shadow

California Dems Water Down Bill To Make Buying Child Sex A Felony

California

Child Sex Abuse

Crime

Scott Wiener

Sex Trafficking

A California bill working its way through the legislature would make the crime of buying child sex a serious felony, replacing current statute in the far-left state that treats soliciting a minor for sex as a misdemeanor.
A bipartisan <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1414" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> would raise solicitation of a minor from a misdemeanor to a felony punishable by up to four years in prison, and a fine of up to $25,000. The bill would also require a person convicted of soliciting a minor to register as a sex offender for 10 years.
The <a href="https://sr12.senate.ca.gov/content/sen-grove-introduces-bi-partisan-measure-continue-fight-against-human-trafficking-0#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIt%20takes%20two%20criminals%20to,are%20purchasing%20sex%20from%20children.">measure</a>, introduced by Republican State Senator Shannon Grove in February and co-sponsored by two Democrats, is scheduled for a committee vote on Tuesday, but it faces an uphill battle for passage.
As of Thursday, the new bill did not have the votes to make it out of committee. Critics are concerned it could target minorities, she explained, but criticized that point of view.
&#8220;Red, yellow, black, or white, you should be in prison,&#8221; Grove said during a phone interview with The Daily Wire on Thursday, arguing that putting child sex buyers behind bars for two years will keep them off the streets and prevent them from soliciting more children, at least during that period.
She said she is working on negotiating with her colleagues without giving up the meat of the bill. Last year, Grove was able to convince a skeptical Democrat-controlled legislature to pass a similar bill that reclassified child sex trafficking from a misdemeanor to a major felony, establishing harsher criminal penalties for traffickers. That bill went into effect on January 1.
Democrats in the legislature were forced to reconsider and support the sex trafficking bill after scathing social media backlash criticizing their initial reluctance.
California&#8217;s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom voiced support for last year&#8217;s bill, saying he personally called Grove about it and was &#8220;surprised&#8221; when it initially failed to pass the committee vote.
Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D) also said at the time that the issue was “something that we are addressing and it’s something we are going to get right.”
Neither Newsom nor Rivas responded to a request for comment on whether they would support Grove&#8217;s new bill targeting buyers.
Before Grove&#8217;s successful bill last year, lawmakers had <a href="https://calmatters.org/justice/2023/07/child-trafficking-bill-california-legislature/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tried</a> at least nine times since 2007 to reclassify child sex trafficking as a more serious crime.
This year, her focus is the purchasers of child sex, Grove said.
&#8220;I want to make the solicitation, the person who&#8217;s going out there going, &#8216;hey little 13-year-old, fourteen-year-old, fifteen-year-old, I want to get that person. I want that person to face felony charges. That&#8217;s what the bill does,&#8221; Grove said during her interview with The Daily Wire.
Grove said she spoke to sex trafficking survivors last year who told her, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to go after the buyers&#8221; in order to really crack down on the child sex trade.
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Helen Taylor, vice president of impact at Exodus Cry argued that eliminating sex trafficking requires going after the demand and implementing proper deterrents.
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&#8220;For this to currently be a misdemeanor, and frequently prosecuted as such, reveals an inadequate understanding of how serious of a crime sex trafficking is,&#8221; Taylor told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;We want every child in California to be better protected and receive the justice they deserve should they ever be trafficked and exploited at the hands of a sex buyer,&#8221; she said.
Taylor urged committee members to vote in favor of the bill on Tuesday.
&#8220;Our laws send a message about what behaviors we are willing to tolerate. Paying money to abuse a child is something we will not tolerate,&#8221; Taylor said. &#8220;It is surely a &#8216;no brainer&#8217; to make buying a child for sex a felony in California and if not, we have a serious problem.&#8221;

Boy Behind Glass Door

Buying Child Sex Is Only A Misdemeanor In California. This Bill Would Change That.

Soliciting Children For Sex Is Only A Misdemeanor In California. This Bill Would Change That.

Democrats

Gavin Newsom

Republican

A Colorado school bus aide who was arrested for allegedly abusing special needs children is already out on bail.
Kiarra Jones, 29, was allegedly seen on a school bus camera hitting a child with severe autism, ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/school-bus-aide-arrested-after-allegedly-abusing-children/story?id=109085679" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Though the school district was aware of concerns from parents for months, Jones was only arrested and fired on April 4. She was released the next day on $5,000 bond.
Video of Jones’ alleged abuse was released two days before her arrest, but had been filmed on March 18, nearly a month earlier. It shows Jones allegedly elbowing 10-year-old autistic boy Dax in the stomach, slapping him in the face, and stomping on his feet.
Dax attends The Joshua School, a private school in Colorado for students with autism, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/littleton-bus-aide-fired-students-autism-tortured-traumatized/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Students take a bus dedicated to students with disabilities provided by Littleton Public Schools (LPS). It is there that young students were abused, parents of at least three students have said.
Students would allegedly come home with fractured bones and bruises, and at least one child had a tooth knocked out, CBS reported.
&#8220;They took my trust and spit on it,&#8221; Dax’s father, Devin, said at a press conference last week.
The parents also discussed their decision to let the video of Dax’s abuse be released to the media without his face being blurred.
&#8220;It was a heavy decision to make to uncover it, but we cannot bring attention to this if we don&#8217;t look at it,&#8221; Dax’s mother, Jess, said at the press conference. &#8220;It&#8217;s ugly to look at, but it&#8217;s important to see how confused and afraid he was in that video. It just speaks to his vulnerability, and it speaks to the terror he had to endure while on that bus.&#8221;
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Jess added that she first noticed injuries on Dax in September 2023 and told his school, who said the injuries didn’t occur in their care. Jess then went to LPS, which told her not to be concerned.
&#8220;I notified LPS on March 18 and on March 19 got a phone call from Littleton police informing me that an LPS employee had severely abused my child,&#8221; she said at the press conference, according to CBS. &#8220;I went to the LPS transportation building and was in utter shock.&#8221;
At that same press conference, the father of another child said his son is non-verbal, and couldn’t tell him about the alleged abuse.
&#8220;My son doesn&#8217;t have the ability to tell me when someone is hurting him,&#8221; the father said. &#8220;My son doesn&#8217;t have the ability to tell me that he was forced to watch someone hurt his friends.&#8221;
Parents of three children are preparing to sue the school, with attorney Ed C. Hopkins saying the school district knew of the abuse but didn’t stop it sooner.
&#8220;They had everything they needed to stop it faster and they didn&#8217;t,&#8221; Hopkins said. &#8220;They had notice and they ignored it. These children have been traumatized and tortured because they failed them.&#8221;
Jones was arrested and faces felony assault charges for crimes against at-risk children, ABC reported.
&#8220;It was determined that more than one non-verbal autistic student was assaulted by the suspect on a moving school bus while en route to school,&#8221; the Englewood Police Department said in <a href="https://www.englewoodco.gov/Home/Components/News/News/6291/21" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a press release</a> on Tuesday. &#8220;It was also determined that the suspect was the victims’ assigned paraprofessional employed by Littleton Public School District at the time of the incident.&#8221;

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Woman Allegedly Caught On Camera Abusing Special Needs Child Already Out On Bail

Colorado

“Growing Pains” star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kirk-cameron" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kirk Cameron</a> said the “dark,” “evil” and “twisted” revelations we’ve seen in the “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nickelodeon-star-melissa-joan-hart-responds-to-quiet-on-the-set-allegations-believe-them-100-percent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Quiet on Set</a>: The Dark Side of Kids TV” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-nickelodeon-star-says-she-was-forced-to-kiss-30-year-old-man-as-a-teen-on-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">docuseries</a> have &#8220;been going on for a long time” in Hollywood.
Speaking to The Daily Wire, the 53-year-old actor said as a child working in Hollywood he definitely witnessed the “disturbing” behavior by those in the business, including his former personal dialogue coach on “Growing Pains” Brian Peck, the convicted sex offender named in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-documentary-uncovers-child-abuse-at-nickelodeon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">series</a>. Peck was arrested, charged with sexual abuse crimes, and ordered to register as a sex offender, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-nickelodeon-star-drake-bell-details-alleged-sexual-abuse-by-dialogue-coach-it-was-extensive-and-brutal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“So, the evil, the darkness, the twisted sickness of Hollywood has been going on for a long time,” Cameron told us. “I started acting when I was 9-years-old. I began ‘Growing Pains’ at 14-years-old. And I was suspicious that that stuff was going on behind the curtains even when I was working on ‘Growing Pains.’”
“And there were several young boys like us [Cameron and Leonardo DiCaprio] that he [Peck] interacted with on a regular basis,” Cameron said. “So, it’s shocking. It’s sickening.
In one of the episodes of the shocking documentary — which alleges abuse and a toxic work environment behind the scenes at Nickelodeon — a clip played from “Growing Pains” showing a young DiCaprio with Peck constantly rubbing the young star’s arms and touching him. Cameron said that’s exactly how he recalled Peck behaving and just remembered “that’s the kind of thing you would see and make you pause and go ‘there’s a little flag on the field,’ but not enough to prove something worse.”
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The Hollywood star shared that at the same time he worked on “Growing Pains” (1985 &#8211; 1992) with Peck, the executive producer and showrunner was Steven Marshall. In 2010, Marshall was arrested and convicted for possession and distribution of child pornography, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2010/03/16/growing-pains-producer-sentenced-for-child-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> reported.
He served 7½ years in federal prison after he was <a href="https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2010/mar/17/child-porn-gets-ex-tv-exec-prison-20100317/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> by an undercover federal agent who was posing as a pedophile. In Marshall’s chats with the agent, the former TV producer would <a href="https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2010/mar/17/child-porn-gets-ex-tv-exec-prison-20100317/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brag</a> about “child abduction, bondage, rapes and murders,” the outlet noted. It came out later in court that the exec. producer never actually had “physical contact” with any of the kids he bragged about doing vile things to, Cameron noted.
“Thank God I got out of there unscathed in the 1980s,” Cameron said. “Those people who did this stuff to these kids are the same kind of people in the industry today. Still making twisted, sick, perverted material that’s hurting children today. And they need to be completely rooted out and replaced.”
“But it’s too late,” Cameron continued. “These children, like Drake Bell &#8230; they have scars that they will carry with them permanently throughout their life.”
Cameron also mentioned he recently spoke with former producers and writers of the show about working with Peck and Marshall, recalling their behavior on set.
“And the consensus was these individuals were charming, they ingratiated themselves into their victims’ lives and were generally likable people when they were putting the ‘nice guy’ face on,” Cameron said.
“But there was … always something smarmy about them,” he added. “You know it was like your ‘Spidey-senses’ told you something’s not right. They were handsy and physical in a smarmy kind of way. But not so overt that you could totally detect what was happening.”
Cameron said he “absolutely” credited his parents with keeping him safe in the predatory environment, adding, “My mom was on the set every day when I was a minor on ‘Growing Pains.’” He also credited his former “cast and crew” who served as additional sets of “guardians.”
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When asked if he thinks Hollywood protects the predator instead of the survivor, the longtime actor said what we are seeing now “ … is an industry that tries to indemnify, exonerate the very pedophiles that we say we want to get rid of, because they are the pedophiles.”
When asked about the letters of support written in defense of Peck by his former on-screen parents, Alan Thicke and Joanna Kerns, Cameron noted, “Nobody wants to believe that the fun, charming, dialogue coach who’s ingratiated himself into the lives of others — almost to the point of being a trusted family friend — would do something so wicked and evil.”
The letters were used by Peck’s attorneys before he was convicted of sexually assaulting a minor. Kearns has since walked back her letter of support. Thicke, however, passed away in 2016.
Following the documentary’s release, former child star Bell came forward and said he was the John Doe from a sexual abuse case from 2004 involving former Nickelodeon dialogue coach Peck. Peck pleaded no contest to the charges, was sentenced to 16 months in prison, and ordered to register as a sex offender, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-nickelodeon-star-drake-bell-details-alleged-sexual-abuse-by-dialogue-coach-it-was-extensive-and-brutal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Docuseries contributors also spoke frequently about former Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider, who they said perpetrated abuse by acting in a controlling manner and making sexually suggestive jokes, some of which were used in children’s programming. They also alleged that Schneider was filmed in a hot tub with then-16-year-old actress Amanda Bynes.
“I definitely owe some people a pretty strong apology,” Schneider said in a statement following the release of “Quiet on Set.”
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The “Lifemark” star talked about the massive increase in LGBTQ programming targeting children from places like Disney, Cartoon Network and Netflix, and said they are no longer hiding their agenda.
“Openly sharing their agenda &#8230; giddy with excitement trying to add as much ‘queerness’ to their content as they can over time,” the actor said. “Before it was sort of hidden, under the radar. But now it’s wide open. They’ve gotten themselves intoxicated with their own perversion and they are so drunk on it that they don’t even know what’s wrong.”
Cameron said he “one hundred percent” thinks the lack of faith in Hollywood led to the darkness.
“The problem is when you take God out of Hollywood or politics they become corrupted.”
It is those experiences the actor went through and the things he’s learned since about the people he worked with that he said motivates him to be part of the solution, to create a safe working environment for kids and children’s programming like he had when he was growing up.
That’s why I’m working with Brave Americans saying ‘we’re not waiting for Hollywood to get it right,’” the “Fireproof” actor said. “We need to make this stuff ourselves.”
“God has exposed them,” he added. “He’s drug the evil out into the middle of the street in broad daylight and this is the time for brave Americans to take charge of their children’s entertainment and their education and start doing something about it.”
The longtime actor said he wants this to “&#8230; be a wakeup call, an incredible opportunity for parents and grandparents &#8230; to be the executive producer of our children’s future. Our generation&#8217;s version of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood&#8221; with his current project. More information can be found <a href="https://bravebooks.us/pages/the-adventures-with-iggy-and-mr-kirk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
“I want to give them something to remind them what good wholesome family entertainment is like and what parents are looking for and children need.”

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Kirk Cameron On ‘Quiet On Set’ Revelations: ‘Been Going On For A Long Time’

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A prominent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBT</a> activist associated with Princeton University has been arrested and charged with possessing child pornography.
Roy &#8220;Trey&#8221; Farmer, 53, is <a href="https://www.nj.com/mercer/2024/03/well-known-music-activist-entrepreneur-charged-with-child-porn-possession.html&amp;subscribed=cfc8656fde1b4236b2a4da4a47dd38bd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> with one felony count of possession of child sexual abuse material, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office.
He was arrested Friday at his condo in Princeton just across from the Ivy League school&#8217;s main entrance.
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Trey is an alumni of Princeton and is President of the “Queer Princeton Alumni” organization. <a href="https://t.co/t7GcyZ2e6Z">pic.twitter.com/t7GcyZ2e6Z</a>
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Farmer is a 1993 Princeton <a href="https://alumni.princeton.edu/stories/trey-farmer-philosophical-approach" target="_blank" rel="noopener">graduate</a> and was heavily involved with the school when he was arrested, organizing events and leading organizations for alumni.
He served as president of both the Queer Princeton Alumni organization and the Princeton University Glee Club Foundation. He also served as vice president of Princeton&#8217;s Bisexual, Transgender, Gay and Lesbian Alumni organization.
“Alumni and students are constantly challenging me and inspiring me in new ways. The things I’ve done in my life and career all stem from the things I was exposed to at Princeton,” Farmer <a href="https://alumni.princeton.edu/stories/trey-farmer-philosophical-approach" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a 2022 profile published on the school&#8217;s alumni website.
The glowing &#8220;alumni spotlight&#8221; profile called Farmer a &#8220;piano prodigy&#8221; and touted that he was &#8220;heavily recruited by other prestigious universities.&#8221; He has earned master’s degrees at both Yale and Harvard, the profile said.
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He also sits on the board of the New York Philharmonic, <a href="https://www.treyfarmer.net/favorite-things" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to his personal website and the orchestra&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nyphil.org/about-us/meet/philharmonic-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>. He says he founded the New York Philharmonic Pride Alliance as well.
Farmer also owned and ran companies in the U.S. and abroad and organized art festivals. One of those festivals, the StayInMay Festival in Naples, Florida, <a href="https://www.stayinmay.com/education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sponsors</a> programs for children. Farmer spends some of his time in Florida.
The prosecutor&#8217;s office <a href="https://alumni.princeton.edu/stories/trey-farmer-philosophical-approach" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> they received a tip in January that someone in Mercer County had uploaded an item portraying child sexual abuse material, and investigators linked the material to Farmer.
Princeton referred questions about Farmer to the prosecutor&#8217;s office, <a href="https://www.nj.com/mercer/2024/03/well-known-music-activist-entrepreneur-charged-with-child-porn-possession.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NJ.com.
The tip came to the prosecutor&#8217;s Internet Crimes Against Children unit, and the information originated with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Several law enforcement agencies coordinated to arrest him Friday, including the county prosecutor&#8217;s office, the Mercer County Tactical Response Team, and Homeland Security Investigations Trenton.
They executed a search warrant to seize &#8220;multiple items of evidentiary value,&#8221; the prosecutor&#8217;s office said.
Farmer was being held at the Mercer County Jail before a scheduled detention hearing Wednesday in Trenton at the Superior Court of Mercer County.
The prosecutor&#8217;s office said they planned to argue that he should be detained before trial.

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Harmony Montgomery was five-years-old when she was last seen in 2019, believed to be killed by her father.
Adam Montgomery, 34, was found guilty on February 22, 2024, of murdering his young daughter and moving her body to different locations in the months after her death. It took a jury less than a day to convict Montgomery of Harmony’s murder, even though her remains have never been found.
Harmony was born in Massachusetts in 2014 to Montgomery and Crystal Sorey, who were unmarried and not even dating at the time of Harmony’s birth. The first years of Harmony’s life were troubled, with the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) a regular presence in her young life.
When Harmony was born, it was believed she would be blind and severely disabled, according to <a href="https://www.mass.gov/doc/office-of-the-child-advocate-investigative-reportharmony-montgomerymay-2022/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an investigative report</a> by Massachusetts’ Office of the Child Advocate (OCA). She ended up being blind in one eye but finding ways to cope.
Her father was in prison at the time of her birth, so she lived with her mother until DCF became involved when Harmony was just two-months-old. DCF placed Harmony in foster care, where she bounced back and forth between that and her mother’s care until February 2019, when her father and his wife, Kayla, were given custody. The couple lived in New Hampshire, and just five months after they gained custody of Harmony, the New Hampshire Department of Children, Youth, and Families (NHDCYF) received a report about abuse. Harmony had a black eye and Montgomery admitted to hurting his daughter.
Even with Montgomery’s admission, NHDCYF’s assessment of the situation determined the allegations of harm were unfounded in October 2019.
The OCA’s report, released in May 2022, found that DCF did not complete an assessment about whether Montgomery was capable of caring for Harmony and her medical needs. He rarely responded to the DCF case management team, and when he did respond, they couldn’t actually speak to him other than to manage his supervised visits with Harmony. The report also found Harmony had 20 supervised visits with her father from the time of her birth to when she was four-and-a-half-years-old, for a total of 40 hours spent with her father.
Her father was not required to complete or even start tasks on his action plan designed to ensure he would be a good caregiver for his daughter. There was also no transition plan in place to make sure the new custody arrangement would be successful. Montgomery was also allowed to take Harmony across state lines and was not required to comply with regulations from the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC). This meant that there was little DCF could do once Harmony went to live with her father in New Hampshire.
In January 2020, a few months after Harmony’s black eye, NHDCYF received a report about the Montgomerys that didn’t mention Harmony. The department asked Montgomery about Harmony and he told her the little girl had been living with her mother in Massachusetts since Thanksgiving. NHDCYF tried to confirm this information but couldn’t get ahold of Sorey, Harmony’s mother.
One year later, in January 2021, NHDCYF received another report about the Montgomery household that didn’t mention Harmony. A second report, again with no mention of Harmony, was made in March 2021. At the time, Montgomery again claimed Harmony was living with her mother and said he hadn’t seen her in a year.
Months later, in September 2021, NHDCYF was contacted by a friend of Sorey’s, who was concerned that Harmony had not been seen since 2019 and that she was supposed to be living with her father in Manchester, New Hampshire. NHDCYF did some research and found that Harmony, who would have been seven at the time, was not enrolled in school in Manchester. The department then began searching for the Montgomerys.
On November 18, 2021, Sorey reached out to Manchester police to say she had not seen her daughter since a FaceTime call in April 2019, more than two and a half years earlier. On December 27, 2021, NHDCYF told the police they couldn’t find Harmony and police opened a search. Within days, Manchester police announced Harmony’s disappearance and that a search had commenced.
In early January 2022, Montgomery was arrested after he was found to be living in his car with a girlfriend. He was charged in Harmony’s disappearance. His wife was also arrested and charged.
At Montgomery’s trial this month, prosecutors alleged that he beat Harmony to death in December 2019 after she had a bathroom accident in his car, prosecutor Christopher Knowles said in his opening statements, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/watch-live-adam-montgomery-murder-trial-harmony-montgomery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to CBS Boston</a>. After killing his daughter, prosecutors alleged, Montgomery &#8220;pulled into that parking lot at Burger King and he ordered his food.”
He ordered his food and he ate. He didn&#8217;t stop to check on Harmony,&#8221; Knowles added, according to the outlet. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t look back at her. He didn&#8217;t show any concern for this innocent little girl, the child he had just beaten. He ordered his food, and he ate. And he didn&#8217;t stop.&#8221;
During the three months after Harmony’s death, Montgomery allegedly moved her body to different places and in different containers. His wife Kayla testified that at one point, Harmony’s body was in the trunk of a friend’s car, a cooler left in the hallway of her mom’s apartment building, the ceiling vent of a homeless shelter where she and Montgomery were living with her two kids, and a freezer in an apartment. Kayla also said the remains were held in a tote bag from a hospital maternity ward that she placed in a stroller between her own two kids to bring it to Montgomery’s place of work, CBS reported. At another time, People magazine <a href="https://people.com/harmony-montgomerys-father-found-guilty-murdering-5-year-old-8598768" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, Harmony’s body was apparently kept in a closet until neighbors complained about the smell.
It is believed that in March 2020, Montgomery disposed of Harmony’s body using a rented U-Haul. Her remains have never been found.
Montgomery claimed at trial that it was Kayla who killed Harmony and tried to frame him, but jurors didn’t buy it.
Montgomery was found guilty on five charges: second-degree murder, second-degree assault, witness tampering, falsifying evidence, and abuse of a corpse. Kayla pleaded guilty to charges of lying to police to obstruct their murder investigation. She is serving an 18-month sentence as part of her plea deal.
Montgomery faces decades in prison and likely will be sentenced in April. He was already in prison for an unrelated gun conviction that sentenced him to 30 years behind bars.

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I have become fascinated with the Ruby Franke case. I have not publicly discussed the case because when the story broke months ago, I was not convinced that more commentary would be beneficial to add to the discussion, namely because this story was quite dark. However, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MKNgVX6u34">the statement</a> she gave in her recent court appearance was unexpected.
A Utah-based family, the Frankes became quite popular several years ago via their “8 Passengers” YouTube channel that had over two million subscribers. They fit into the YouTuber families who look like the perfect family — well-dressed, church-going (Mormon), wife, husband, six children. But by June 2020, some of those subscribers started to take note of some strange happenings in the family. Followers began criticizing Ruby Franke’s punishing techniques, they noticed the degree to which she allowed her children to prank one another, and then they realized one of her children was sleeping in a beanbag.
Viewers’ concerns escalated, and some reached out to the local Children Protection Services and went so far as to begin a petition that forcing a child to sleep in a beanbag was too harsh of a punishment. But when Franke was asked about it, she simply said the kid loved it. In 2021, Ruby and Kevin, her husband, began going to counseling with Jodie Hildebrant, a business partner who became her mentor and counselor to her children.
In August of 2022, Franke faced more criticism, this time over a lunch debacle. Her six-year-old daughter had packed a lunch but forgot it. Franke refused to take the lunch to her daughter and let her eat — a punishment obviously way too harsh for a six-year-old.
Police visited the home a few times, but it was not until August of last year when everything exploded. Franke and Hildebrant were arrested after Franke’s 12-year-old son escaped from Hildebrant’s house, ran to a neighbor, and called 911. The boy was entirely malnourished, his limbs had been duct taped, and he had visible injuries.
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Hildebrant had allegedly become a counselor to the children; however, the son later told investigators that Hildebrant put cayenne pepper and honey on wounds he had from being tied with a rope. When the Department of Public Safety arrived at the residence, they found another child, her daughter, in comparable condition who had been subjected to the same mistreatment and abuse. As more details unfolded, more abuse came to light. The mother was apparently telling her children they were possessed, and the children believed their mom. Franke told her daughter that to be absolved from possession, she must be subjected to such treatment.
This entire situation is absolutely infuriating. It involves children. Precious, innocent children. It also involves a parent with a warped brain.
This week, Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrant were sentenced to 30 years in prison — and Franke’s not fighting it. That’s what has made this case so interesting. Typically, lawyers work to get a sentence reduced, but part of the reason this court case has moved so quickly is because she is not fighting the charges. Franke gave a rather surprising <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MKNgVX6u34">statement in front of the court</a> — surprising in that it is uncommon — saying she believes she deserves to go to prison for what she has done.
In her statement, she explains how she got to her delusional way of living, coming to believe the church was against her, the government was against her, and in order to “save” her children, she must inflict these punishments on them. She was working with an exceptionally dark and disturbed woman, Hildebrant, but Franke says it was her own choice to believe what she heard. She apologizes to her husband, thanks the police officers, addresses her parents with sincerity, and pleads to God, saying her greatest desire is to one day stand in God’s courts, spotless and confident. She ends by confirming she knows this is “a necessary step” to learn until she is “ready to re-enter as a contributing member of our beautiful society.”
What Ruby Franke did is horrible. What her children have experienced is an absolute tragedy. Even with cases such as these, we are conditioned to watch people commit atrocious crimes and then explain why we should understand they committed them.
Everyone looks for an excuse and for understanding. But not Franke. Her response is surprising because people don’t take accountability anymore. They do not admit wrongdoing. They do not ask for healing, own their faults, and admit they deserve every single thing thrown at them.
To be clear, regardless of her statement, the victims are the children and that fact can never be removed. But it is a response worth discussing. What an interesting conclusion — and one we never see.
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&#8220;Boy Meets World&#8221; stars Rider Strong, Will Friedle, and Danielle Fishel opened up about the friendship they had at one point with actor Brian Peck, who was later convicted of child molestation.
During their &#8220;Pod Meets World&#8221; <a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-pod-meets-world-98589488/episode/pod-meets-world-21924-151811336/">podcast</a> on Monday, Strong and Friedle said they were manipulated by Peck — who was accused in 2003 of molesting a child and pleaded no contest to the charges. He was later convicted and spent 16 months behind bars, <a href="https://ew.com/boy-meets-world-stars-discuss-former-friendship-convicted-child-abuser-brian-peck-8585002">Entertainment Weekly</a> reported.
Strong and Friedle were young stars when they met Peck, who was in his 40s when he showed up to work with them during a two-episode arc on the popular ABC sitcom in 1997.
They admitted Peck befriended them and the boys started hanging out with the older actor — not just on the set but outside of work too.
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&#8216;Boy Meets World&#8217; Actors Detail Past Friendship with Guest Star and Convicted Child Abuser <a href="https://t.co/z0nBSpmLtE">https://t.co/z0nBSpmLtE</a>
— People (@people) <a href="https://twitter.com/people/status/1760008445602718043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
Peck was a known gay man and Fishel speculated that parents of young kids might&#8217;ve given him a &#8220;pass&#8221; and didn’t say anything about the older man hanging out with their children because they didn&#8217;t want to be seen as homophobic, &#8220;instead of, &#8216;This is a boundary, gay or not. This is a boundary between adults and kids.'&#8221;
Both Strong and Friedle said they are still reeling from how they said Peck ended up getting them to be on the &#8220;abuser&#8217;s side&#8221; to support him in court against the child molestation charges. 
&#8220;He didn&#8217;t say that nothing had happened,&#8221; Strong said. &#8220;So by the time we heard about this case and knew anything about it, it was always in the context of, &#8216;I did this thing, I am guilty. I am going to take whatever punishment the government determines, but I&#8217;m a victim of jailbait. There was this hot guy, I just did this thing and he&#8217;s underage.'&#8221;
&#8220;And we bought that storyline,&#8221; Strong added. &#8220;I never heard about the other things because, back then, you couldn&#8217;t Google to find out what people were being charged with. So in retrospect, he was making a plea deal and admitting one thing, which is all he admitted to us, but it looks like he was being charged with a series of crimes, which we did not know.&#8221;
The two stars even went so far as to write letters to the judge to defend their pal, something that the victim&#8217;s mom called Peck and them out in court.
&#8220;&#8216;Look at all the famous people you brought with you, and it doesn&#8217;t change what you did to my kid,'&#8221; Friedle said, recalling the moment, while he said he &#8220;just sat there wanting to die.&#8221;
&#8220;It was like, &#8216;What the hell am I doing here?'&#8221; he added. &#8220;It was horrifying all the way around. We weren&#8217;t told the whole story, but it doesn&#8217;t change the fact that we did it. I still can&#8217;t get the words out to describe all of the things that I&#8217;m feeling inside of myself.&#8221;
&#8220;There’s an actual victim here, and he turned us against the victim to where now we&#8217;re on his team,&#8221; Friedle added. &#8220;That’s the thing where, to me, I look back at that as my ever-loving shame for this entire [thing].&#8221;
&#8220;Getting taken in by somebody who&#8217;s a good actor and a manipulator, I could chalk that up to being young and that&#8217;s the way it is,&#8221; Friedle continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s awful. I&#8217;m going to use that for my growth as a human being, but when there&#8217;s an actual victim involved and now I&#8217;m on the abuser&#8217;s side, that’s the thing I can&#8217;t get over and haven&#8217;t been able to get over.&#8221;

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‘Manipulator’: ‘Boy Meets World’ Stars Open Up About Friendship With Actor Later Convicted Of Child Molestation

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An NBC News article buries the mention of child pornography charges against an Oklahoma school principal who moonlighted as a drag queen and resigned when the charges came to light.
Last month, Shane Murnan, a 52-year-old man who <a href="https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2023/09/12/western-heights-public-schools-oklahoma-libsoftiktok-drag-show-principal/70832065007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">performs</a> in drag as Shantel Mandalay, resigned as head principal at John Glenn Elementary in Oklahoma City. The Western Heights school board voted Monday to accept Murnan’s resignation.
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An Oklahoma principal with a side gig as a drag queen says he was forced to resign under pressure from state Superintendent Ryan Walters and others. <a href="https://t.co/bLg3U8gnfJ">https://t.co/bLg3U8gnfJ</a>
&mdash; NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1757249528892162292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In the months leading up to his resignation, a substack called V1SUT <a href="https://v1sut.substack.com/p/oklahoma-school-district-hires-drag" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> about Murnan&#8217;s previous arrest on child pornography charges, putting pressure on the school district to reexamine its hire.
Murnan was <a href="https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2002/02/15/prosecutors-appeal-ruling-on-evidence/62106535007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> in 2001 after police found four images of children engaged in sex acts on his computer, court documents say. However, the charges were ultimately dropped when a judge ruled that prosecutors had not proven that the people in the photos were underage.
At the time, Murnan was a 30-year-old fifth-grade teacher at a different elementary school in the Oklahoma City area.
Back in June when Murnan was hired at John Glenn, the school district <a href="https://www.facebook.com/whisd/posts/1142532123364984?ref=embed_post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledged</a> that it was aware of the old charges. Nevertheless, the district said Murnan came &#8220;highly recommended&#8221; and said they were &#8220;very excited about his vision&#8221; for the school.
Soon after he was hired, however, the former charges against the teacher went viral. The popular X account Libs of TikTok posted about Murnan, and State Superintendent Ryan Walters called for him to be fired.
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Meet Shane Murnan- elementary principal at <a href="https://twitter.com/wh_isd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wh_isd</a>.
Shane is a drag queen who performs for children and reads books about gender to kids while dressed in drag.
Shane was also previously arrested on child porn charges.
Would you want this person in charge of your kid’s school? <a href="https://t.co/yNuZyt3HRK">pic.twitter.com/yNuZyt3HRK</a>
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“I’ve heard from parents all over the state,” Walters <a href="https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2023/09/12/western-heights-public-schools-oklahoma-libsoftiktok-drag-show-principal/70832065007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in September. “They want this principal out of the school, and I’m going to do everything in my power to ensure that that happens.”
Finally last month, Murnan said that Superintendent Brayden Savage told him that if he didn’t resign, the district would fire him because of the cost of increased security due to threats the school was receiving.
NBC&#8217;s Monday article focused on Murnan&#8217;s drag persona rather than the &#8220;decades-old criminal charges against Murnan that were dropped,&#8221; which it first mentions were related to child pornography way down in the 13th paragraph.
&#8220;He never had a problem with his dual identities, he said, until last year,&#8221; NBC&#8217;s article says.
“I’m a very professional person — I’ve worked really hard,” NBC quoted Murnan as saying. “I’ve gone to school. I got my bachelor’s, my master’s, my doctorate — I have been devoted to education, trying to make it a better thing. But they’ve destroyed me, and I don’t know where I’m going or what I’m doing now. This has been a nightmare.”
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The article also says Murnan is the &#8220;latest example of an educator singled out by Walters over ideological disagreements.&#8221;
The piece finishes with a quote from Murnan, who laments that &#8220;right now, it’s not about the kids in Oklahoma&#8221; but &#8220;all about politics.&#8221;

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On January 6, 2021, the FBI explicitly chose to abandon a sting on a child pornographer in Virginia who was messaging with an undercover agent about having sex with a nine-year-old boy, opting instead to focus on prosecuting Donald Trump&#8217;s supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol. Less than three years later, the FBI discovered the same man living in Alaska where he appears to have been performing sex acts on a 10-year-old boy, according to court documents.
On December 2, 2020, an internet user with the screen name “gayboy69freak” messaged an undercover agent with the FBI&#8217;s Washington Field Office, who was posing as a father pimping out his 9-year-old son, and told him that he wanted to travel to D.C. to have sex with the boy. The man also sent the agent a video of “a prepubescent minor male being anally penetrated by an adult male’s erect penis.” His IP address led the FBI to Brogan Welsh of Glenn Allen, Virginia.
What appears to be a slam-dunk case against a child predator was abruptly abandoned just one month later.
“On January 6, 2021, FBI, Washington Field Office, [decided] this investigation was halted due to events that occurred at the United States Capitol Building that day,” <a class="c-link" href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.261158/gov.uscourts.dcd.261158.1.1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.261158/gov.uscourts.dcd.261158.1.1.pdf" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">court documents say</a>.
The man was only arrested, and the court documents only filed, because Welsh moved to Alaska and crossed the Anchorage FBI’s radar in an unrelated perversion investigation. On October 24, 2023, after coming across troubling chats from Welsh on a phone they seized from a different alleged pervert, Alaska FBI agents went into his house and “located items including sex toys that are very small in size and apparently consistent with the body size of an approximate 10-year-old boy,” as well as children’s underwear.
“The investigation has revealed that a 10-year-old boy was, in fact, residing at the residence belonging to Welsh,” the agents wrote.
In other words, because the FBI called off the dogs even after Welsh sent child porn to an FBI agent, he appears to have gone on to molest a 10-year-old.
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It was as FBI agents worked through the Alaska case that they realized that the bureau&#8217;s Washington Field Office had slam-dunk evidence that it had never bothered to do anything with, and added it to <a class="c-link" href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67908275/united-states-v-welsh/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67908275/united-states-v-welsh/" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">charging documents</a> filed November 6, 2023. The Alaska arrest of Welsh was made based on the initial child pornography crime in Virginia, not even his apparent crimes in Alaska.
The Washington Field Office wouldn&#8217;t say how many other ordinary criminal investigations were put on hold because of January 6, but it did acknowledge that resources were diverted.
“In the immediate aftermath of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, WFO resources were surged to support the FBI’s response and investigation,&#8221; the office told The Daily Wire in a statement. &#8220;However, WFO continued to diligently pursue its ongoing investigations. While we can’t speak to the specific circumstances of this case, the FBI takes all crimes against children investigations extremely seriously, and we must follow the facts where they lead and collect enough evidence to pursue prosecution.”
This sort of admission, that a case was dropped, rarely appears in court filings, because a dropped investigation means nothing ever makes it to court. Welsh&#8217;s case is an exception because he tripped the wires of a different field office in Alaska, which picked up the case.
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 1,000 defendants in what they call the &#8220;Capitol Breach,&#8221; and more than 65,000 legal documents have been filed in the cases, according to a Daily Wire database. Investigators and prosecutors have limited time, so it turns out that all that work likely comes at the expense of the cases they’d normally be handling.
The focus on January 6 prosecutions has coincided with U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia prosecutors, who because of D.C.’s unique status handle most local criminal violations in the city, increasingly deciding not to prosecute residents arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department — even as D.C. crime has gotten out of control.
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In 2020, before the Capitol event, the office declined to prosecute 35% of felonies and 52% of misdemeanors that were brought to them by local police. In 2021, as they focused on Capitol defendants, those numbers grew to 56% and 42%, according to <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao/resources/annual-statistical-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department Of Justice data</a>. In 2022, a whopping 72% of people who were arrested for misdemeanors in D.C., and 53% of would-be felons, found themselves going free because prosecutors simply didn’t bother to pursue their cases. The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s office has in part blamed a lack of an accredited crime lab to test drugs and DNA.
At the same time, life has gotten worse for D.C. residents. Violent crime is up by 39% compared to last year; homicide is up by 34%. In 2020, there were 360 carjackings in DC, according to <a href="https://mpdc.dc.gov/node/212492" target="_blank" rel="noopener">city police</a>.  So far in 2023, there have been 870.
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Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a nonprofit that has criticized the FBI for political bias, said the child pornography case shows that politicization of the FBI harms more than just conservatives targeted for their political beliefs. Now, he said, even totally apolitical people may suffer because the FBI won&#8217;t make prosecuting their victimizers a priority unless the case is politically advantageous.
“Cases that check the boxes, the concern is only those will get appropriate attention,” he told The Daily Wire. “When you use politics to guide your law enforcement priorities, it necessarily means that public safety takes a back seat.”
There are indications that other victims of child sexual abuse may not be getting justice because of the FBI&#8217;s political agenda. On Thursday, The Daily Wire reported that a Satan-worshipping cult of pedophiles is blackmailing girls into cutting themselves — but the FBI was interested in it only after they came up with a way to brand the cult as neo-Nazi white supremacists.
It assigned the domestic terrorism unit instead of the cybercrimes or sex crimes unit, and a witness said the agents seemed unfamiliar with how to investigate sex abuse cases and less interested in the majority of its victims, who were white and suffered horrific abuse, than in a black victim where there was a racial angle. It arrested one member in New York — a Hispanic man who called the judge a “cracker” in court — but maintained that he was a “neo-Nazi” white supremacist.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-satanist-pedophile-gang-is-torturing-kids-the-fbi-didnt-seem-to-care-unless-it-could-blame-white-supremacy">A Satanist Pedophile Gang Is Torturing Kids. The FBI Didn’t Seem To Care Unless It Could Blame White Supremacy.</a>
A typical January 6 case is that of three Marines, Joshua Abate, Michah Coomer, and Dodge Dale Hellonon. The <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1567496/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entirety of the allegations against them</a> is that at 2:20 p.m., they “entered the U.S. Capitol Building through the Senate Wing Door and proceed to walk South down a hallway,” used “their cellular devices to take pictures, videos, and answer phone calls,” “remained in the Rotunda for a couple minutes before leaving through the South entrance,” and remained “inside the Rotunda for approximately 30 minutes until police arrive and form a line to direct people out of the Building.” Then they exited “the U.S. Capitol Building through the Rotunda Door having been inside for approximately 52 minutes.” 
For that case, prosecutors scoured social media, subpoenaed Facebook, consulted motor vehicle and military records, interviewed people who served in the Marine Corps to identify them, subpoenaed his phone provider, and analyzed his GPS movements.
By comparison, in December 2022, rapper and gang member Jeremiah Evans pointed a gun at two people and <a href="https://wjla.com/news/local/shootings-dc-crime-jeremiah-evans-khalliqo-ford-akira-wilson-teen-murder-suspect-on-the-streets-after-earlier-shooting-charges-were-dropped-us-attorneys-office-southwest-library-greenleaf-gardens-southwest-dc-nra-no-rats-allowed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opened fire in front of a D.C. library</a>. Police arrested him, but the U.S. Attorney’s office declined to prosecute without explanation. Six months later, he was back on the same block with a gun again, and allegedly killed someone.

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