Moms for Liberty honored this GOP Rep. He was just arrested for kiddie porn.
Moms for Liberty (M4L), the anti-LGBTQ+ extremist hate group, reportedly honored South Carolina state Rep. RJ May as their 2023 Legislator of the Year and had him speak at their 2022 event on “Reclaiming Education in America.” May was just arrested this morning over nearly a dozen federal charges for distributing child sex abuse material — he has a wife and child.
May’s indictment is notable since M4L regularly seeks to ban LGBTQ+-inclusive children’s books as a form of “pornography” and regularly accuses LGBTQ+ people and their allies of “grooming” children for sexual abuse, a decades-old claim that inspires hatred and violence of people and their supporters.
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Prosecutors say May’s Kik account contained 265 child sex abuse videos, WISTV reported. Prosecutors also say that May “has a sexual interest in children the same age as his own children” and that he has “a sexual interest in incest” between young children and their parents. Because some of the images featured children the same age as his own child, prosecutors recommended he be held without bail until his trial.
Prosecutors also allegedly found videos on his laptop of him having sex with three underage girls from Colombia, none of whom were his wife. May allegedly used an account on the social media platform Mega to send messages to these girls that “consisted largely of arranging ‘meet up’ dates, time, price negotiations, and rules regarding the videoing of sexual encounters, all of which are indicative of sex work,” the court indictment against him stated.
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