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Palm Beach County Clerk of Court Michael Caruso, a former Republican state legislator who previously backed the death penalty for adults convicted of sexually battering children under 12, was arrested Tuesday on five felony child sex abuse charges.
The 67-year-old married father of seven, who was appointed by Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, faces five felony counts: kidnapping, child molestation, lewd exhibition, luring or enticing a child and child abuse causing mental injury, an arrest affidavit shows.
Investigators in Florida say Caruso violated a child—who is a relative—and allege the abuse occurred multiple times from fall 2024 to August 2025, including on a family cruise, a fishing outing and during a Thanksgiving gathering. The child has been receiving therapeutic services since April 2026, according to the police affidavit.
Its always the ones you most suspect.
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Hoist by his own pedo-tard?
I notice he still isn’t a trans person or a drag queen.
Dude has an iron-clad defense, though. Said it’s only abuse if the child is the same sex and he likes women/girls. I really wish I were making that up.
Edit: wow, I actually totally misunderstood his absurd defense. He actually said “sexual deviancy is directed towards one sex rather than two” and since he’s attracted to women (when the victim here was a boy) he can’t possibly be a sex offender. I think we’ve finally found something so far gone that even MAGAts can’t support it.
Not that I don’t believe you, but do you have a source for that? It’s so outrageous I need to see it myself.
🤢 That is one of the most disgusting claims I’ve seen. I’m normally against the death penalty but scum like this makes me question my stance.
I mean, he himself called for people like him to face the death penalty. I am anti death penalty, but I am also in favor of medically assisted suicide for those who fully consent, so if he’s opting-in I say let’s do it.
@chewypoops @TrickDacy Emasculation.
Yeah, it’s normal to generally be against it but some people just don’t fit into that. It should be reserved for the most evil people.
Thanks! Also, gross!
Not only a pedophile but also a sexist. But somehow that makes it better in Republican eyes.
What else can we expect? if you have read The Handmaid’s Tale, the authorities there were the most corrupt. Republicans and far right folks want to make USA what it was in The Handmaid’s Tale. Wokes too are so bending towards the Islamists that they too will end up making USA a sharia state.
I never see leftists embrace Sharia-like rules or laws. The only ‘fuzzy’ thing is headscarves that seem to be understood as both an expression of religion and an instrument of oppression. Besides this contradictory feature I don’t see any move towards Islamic rule.
Do you?
Yes
Never was a truer username chosen
thanks
I was with you until that last sentence.
Never mind. These political labels are too small for me.
0/10 trollpoints
well cannot beat the biggest trolls in the governments
wokes too are so bending towards the Islamists that they too will end up making USA a sharia state.
wow, it’s not enough that one party is literally CHOCK FULLA PEDOS, no it’s gotta be both somehow, even though the evidence CLEARLY POINTS IN ONE DIRECTION.
show me the evidence for the left pushing sharia law. show me, or admit you’re fucking wrong.
there is no such thing as absolute right and wrong.
Damn bro. Protecting pedophiles?
That’s how far you’ll go for the gop? When you know they’re sex criminals, you’ll still defend them?
there is no such thing as absolute right and wrong.
sick
Wait - you’re trying to say that the left is actually hard right? Because Sharia is pretty undeniably very conservative. Actually, The Handmaid’s Tale fits much more closely with what republicans want. I think maybe you’re a bit confused mate.
maybe I am cuz everything is so confusing and like from what I heard from right wing is that the left deliberately hid the grooming gang cases to appease Islamists and like in UK, it is left that allowed ikhwanis in the British universities. They hate west.
It’s a safe bet that anything you heard from the right is bullshit or warmed-over hasbara.
I live in the UK. The police used woke as an excuse for their own incompetence in investigating the grooming gangs.
I know a lot of British Muslims. None are Ikhwaan.
The only people burning down other people’s homes over here are white rightwingers.
holy shit…
Hang him
It’s always the ones who you suspect.
and not the ones they tell you to fear
The people who benefit most from people believing that pedophiles are typically members of a specific minority group are pedophiles who aren’t members of that group
Complicated method of suicide, but given the circumstances I will allow it.
Projection is assumed these days.
Me thinks the righty doth protest too much.
Indulge him.
Give him what he wants!
be a good one for that penalty
Uno card reverse
Suicide the long game?
It’s almost as if wishing death on people is some sort of red flag…
Nah fam. I’m down with legit pedos getting a full reckoning. Its just wishful thinking that this slug will see any justice.
Remember that guy a few years ago who walked because he was a white kid from a rich family who ‘wouldn’t do well in prison’? Yeah, like that.
Found it, this piece of shit.
which one? there’s A SHIT TON.
https://people.com/teen-prominent-family-strangled-raped-women-judge-let-him-go-free-11845008
https://newrepublic.com/post/202993/convicted-child-sex-predator-avoids-prison-thanks-trump-pardon
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/fact-check-texas-ag-ken-194400815.html
I know there’s a bunch more
I’d love to see data on all the child sex offenders who’ve been found guilty over the last 50 years and learn whether they’re politically liberal or conservative and what types of jobs they’ve held. I have a hypothesis and I want to see if the data supports or refutes it.
There’s a pretty famous list that would get republished every time one of these stories hit the news. IIRC, it was Republican politicians convicted of child abuse crimes. But I can’t seem to find it anywhere right now.
There’s a similar list of Democrats. It’s about half the size of the other one.
I’ll bet I can find more right-wingers/clergy arrested for molestation of children in the last week than I could find drag queens in the history of existence
