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BeyondGeography

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Wed Nov 19, 2025, 02:05 PM Wednesday

January 6 rioter who was pardoned by Trump arrested for child sexual abuse [View all]

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 sheriff’s 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

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Trump Pardon Recipient Crime Wave ck4829 Wednesday #1
Only the best.............. Lovie777 Wednesday #2
Very fine people! WmChris Wednesday #6
Oh but his followers are just law loving "christians." BlueKota Wednesday #3
Isn't there even one good apple in that barrel??? marble falls Wednesday #4
That the question that I ask about all Maggots. efhmc Wednesday #9
Nope, just maggots. calimary Wednesday #16
Probably cannabis_flower Wednesday #18
Willie Horton Who? Hieronymus Phact Wednesday #5
At this rate, within 10 years Wednesdays Wednesday #7
10 years? More like 5 months. Initech Wednesday #8
More than likely popsdenver Wednesday #17
The only outrage by other MAGA J6er's will be where is my $10M? Bengus81 Wednesday #10
Absolutely horrible. Those poor children..... democrank Wednesday #11
but yet Trump has not been arrested twodogsbarking Wednesday #12
Was this pardon done with an Autopen ? republianmushroom Wednesday #13
When there are too many rotten apples, there's something wrong with the orchard IronLionZion Wednesday #14
The diseased fruit doesn't fall far from the tree. BattleRow Wednesday #22
May all involved receeive everything they deserve. niyad Wednesday #15
I guess Trump didn't realize COL Mustard Wednesday #19
Trump will likely pardon him again iemanja Wednesday #20
GOP BaronChocula Wednesday #21
That's on Trump, but he doesn't care. Fla Dem Wednesday #23
Upstanding citizen.nt jfz9580m Wednesday #24
So that pardon wasn't a pardon for all crimes, past, present and future? Aussie105 Wednesday #25
Sounds Like A Job For Trump's AG Pick, Matt Gaetz DrFunkenstein Wednesday #26
Arepublicans are predators . Bread and Circuses Yesterday #27
Are all these people pervs? Joinfortmill Yesterday #28
Big surprise! J6ers are child molesters! Clouds Passing Yesterday #29
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