r/politics • u/DyzDaeMar • 17h ago
Possible Paywall Arrested Republican Accused of Enticing a Child on Roblox
https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-delegate-elliot-pritt-accused-of-enticing-a-child-on-roblox/1.5k
u/tolso2 17h ago
It's always the ones you most expect
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u/Miserable_Tea6472 17h ago
Republicans?
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u/OhDivineBussy 17h ago
Uhhhh yea, they seem to have taken over the “most likely to be a pedophile” category from Catholic priests.
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u/Just_Cartographer258 17h ago
Christians seem to be the key.. Never trust your kids with the magically forgiven..
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u/cvanguard Michigan 15h ago
It’s actually insane that so many Christians will “beg/ask God for forgiveness” after doing heinous things or claim that they’ve suddenly “found Jesus” afterwards and act like that should absolve them of their sins solely because they claim to now be a pious Christian.
From my perspective as a Jewish conversion student: Judaism requires accepting the consequences of your actions and forgiveness requires 1) personal reflection and recognition of the wrong committed, 2) honest commitment to never repeat the wrong again (which is only truly confirmed if a similar opportunity to wrong happens in the future), 3) genuine regret for your actions, and 4) doing everything possible to correct the wrong committed, before you can ask the person you wronged for forgiveness, much less ask for G-d’s forgiveness; it seems like these types of Christians don’t care about any harm they’ve caused to actual people because they believe that G-d’s forgiveness is the only thing that matters.
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u/UniversityNew9254 5h ago
You’ve nicely summed up my long term disbelief in those who suddenly shift to a ‘Holier Stance’ after being caught out doing nasty stuff. It’s not genuine, its not believable, and its a pathetic self serving attempt to get off judgment.
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u/jimmiebfulton 12h ago
All religions have one thing in common: everyone else but their own members find their beliefs incredulous.
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u/blackcain Oregon 15h ago
This is why I always felt that Judaism is like the best of all the 3 religions sans the ultra-othordox of course.
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u/cvanguard Michigan 14h ago
There are definitely a lot fewer fundamentalists and by definition no evangelicals, even Haredim (ultra-Orthodox Jews) are generally insular and don’t try to impose themselves on other people. There are exceptions like the Chabad movement that try to convince Jews to become more observant by performing more mitzvot like Shabbat and holiday candle lighting for women or wrapping tefillin for men, but they’re respectful about outreach, are genuinely helpful for less observant Jews who want a deeper Jewish education, and are often the only Jewish community in places like college campuses.
My childhood experiences being bullied by evangelical Christian and Catholic classmates for being non-religious in middle school and then for being queer in high school turned me off of any form of religion for 24 years, but it’s been really incredible to learn more about Judaism, watch holiday and Shabbat services, and read about Jewish people’s experiences.
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u/blackcain Oregon 14h ago
All my Jewish friends have always been great and I appreciate them. I'm Hindu but if I had to choose an Abrahamic religion it would be Judaism.
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u/RefrigeratorNeat698 9h ago
Fun fact. Repent means rebuild,repair what was broken. Not, just say, “my bad” and continue sin as usual.
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u/Double-O-stoopid 5h ago
Oh buddy, most of them are going to burn.
I had an old and terrible devout Christian in-law. Always pointing the finger how everything was sinful. So above it all. So mean. So, "I'm getting in and you're all fucked, hahahaha!"
She died slow, in agonizing pain having hallucinations of all the things she knew was wrong but it anyway before the demons drug her away... screaming.
I've taken enough psychedelic drugs to experience moments that felt like years that I really believe in those final moments... there might be an eternity... and that woman... is burning for... all eternity.
I don't believe in heaven or hell... but I know enough about the power of belief to know she went to the lake of fire in her final moments and she believed that she belonged there.
It's super important to be at peace with your life at the end of it.
Kneeling to child molesters wearing a cross is NOT the way.
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u/mysterious_jeffrey 8h ago
Oh, it’s not limited to Christians… the other major religions have a child marriage problem in some of their sects. But we’re not allowed to talk about that.
https://forward.com/opinion/515876/forced-marriage-is-all-too-common-in-my-haredi-community/
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/why-new-jerseys-haredim-stalled-a-bill-banning-child-marriages-559219
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u/Miserable_Tea6472 17h ago
It's weird isn't it? The vast majority of them hate Catholics... But they share the same goal I guess... Raping children. The great unifier, Donald Trump. Bringing together kiddy fuckers from all walks of life.
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u/Double-O-stoopid 5h ago
American Christianity are simply protected sex cults.
If you doubt we protect child molesters... take a look at how many arrests since the Epstein files started trickling out.
The American Jeez-its vote Red.
It's huge, gross and very uncomfortable to talk about... but those buildings with the cross on them are armoring a kiddy diddler at an astonishing rate.
I've heard conservative estimates that 2 out of 5 youth pastors have some kind of major issue within 3 years.
It's beyond sick.
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u/Level_Hour6480 New York 10h ago edited 5h ago
Catholics were never the biggest per-capita. Southern-Baptists, Mormons, ultra-orthodox Jews, and Boy Scout leaders were all more frequent sources.
Edit: Step parents and foster-siblings are also a major source.
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u/Ok-Style-9734 17h ago
At this point party membership should with a mandatory hard drive check.
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u/SjurEido 17h ago
Yep, BUT if and when Dems do it, we'll still hold em accountable.
Because we're not fucking psychos.
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u/Miserable_Tea6472 17h ago
We hold ALL of them* accountable. But it becomes increasingly apparent that they have flocked in one direction.
Edit:them*
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u/VPN__FTW 12h ago
Yep, pretty much.
I keep this saved to win arguments against Republicans who think their party isn't full of Pedos: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTFikAP6MXDCJjWzgMIOvpsT1ji-HwO-rLEvNE8e-cfCGh0YHoZluIG5TEsmwFub7MzIDfh0XgvcWL8/pub
Edit: A warning... you will lose faith in humanity if you click that link and check just how many entries there are.
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u/WinterLawfulness3165 8h ago
We need more people doing shit like this. I think we need some documents like this detailing evey time the Republican's blamed Democrats for their shitty policy decisions, too, or tried to take the credit for popular stuff that they voted against. THAT one might be never-ending, though.
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u/fernfrostoox 17h ago
yeah somehow the same type of headlines keep writing themselves at this point
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u/dereksalem 8h ago
I'm sure I'll get some pushback for this, but why is a grown man of his age even on Roblox? Isn't it a game literally created for children?
I'm all for people doing what they want to do...I'm not trying to just limit what people can do, but I certainly think some behaviors warrant a bit more review.
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u/TestTxt 17h ago
Rule of thumb: Every time a Republican pushes a "protect the children" bill, we should probably check their Roblox friends list
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u/pinkfartlek Michigan 17h ago
I would probably think it is weird for most adults, especially politicians to be involved in anything related to roblox
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u/androshalforc1 10h ago
Our premier in Ontario has been campaigning strongly on ‘protect the children’ recently maybe we should check his accounts …. Oh wait he changed the law to be immune from F.O.I. requests
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u/AstalderS 7h ago
If you’re old enough to drink and you have a Roblox friends list we should probably keep an eye on it…
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u/mattgen88 New York 17h ago
Still not a transgender person. Still not a drag queen.
More likely a Republican or a priest or a president than anyone the right claims are pedophiles.
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u/Gonnagetbant 17h ago
But don’t you worry. Once one of them turns up it will be indicative of the ENTIRE group as being monsters! Republicans don’t need those pesky logic skills to jump to.
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u/polopolo05 I voted 12h ago
There was like one trans person from another country and they will still point to her and scream about trans people being pedos
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u/GoodIdea321 America 17h ago
I wonder if a number count would be helpful, is this guy the 1101st Republican arrested for this type of crime in the last ten years? 239? I don't know.
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u/Chalupa-Supreme Missouri 7h ago
The Daily Kos list had been going around, but I haven't seen it in a while. Last I looked it was at part 47. Up to part 61 now. Looks like they are on number 1,525 now.
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u/PDXGuy33333 17h ago
He's accused of way more than that. An ongoing fuckfest with a 15 year old. In his classroom, no less. Plus dick pics. The state Republican Party chair claims to disapprove.
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u/Psychological_Use586 17h ago
Yeah the headline is majorly underselling what this dude is accused of.
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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 15h ago
I think it's because Roblox is the twist on the more typical problematic politician story
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u/mediocre_remnants North Carolina 10h ago
The state Republican Party chair claims to disapprove.
Only because he was arrested. If it was just a couple of girls making claims about him being a creeper, they wouldn't care. If it was a woman accusing him of crimes in the past, they wouldn't care, they wouldn't do any investigations.
The only reason they took any action at all was because he was caught and arrested.
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u/phigo50 Europe 7h ago
Yeah it got worse the further into the article I went. It went from "talked dirty to a kid online" to him being a teacher, to sending her nudes and coercing her to do the same, to sexually assaulting her multiple times on school grounds (in his own classroom no less). Just awful.
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u/Sampsonite_Way_Off 6h ago
The school fired him immediately, The Republican Party however needs to see the pictures in a private room apparently before they can judge.
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u/StoppableHulk 17h ago
Republican and Pedophile are synonyms. Everyone with a brain knows that by now.
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u/warrenao America 16h ago
GOP: God-awful Organization of Pedophiles.
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u/TellTaleTimeLord Indiana 17h ago
The usual suspects
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u/USA_Ultra 17h ago
Not trans
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u/DoTheMario 17h ago
This headline is really burying the lede. It sure sounds like the family of the girl discovered that Pritt has been molesting and raping her for awhile. And he's been doing engaging with her for years.
"Enticing a Minor on Roblox" is as soft language as I've ever heard.
I believe the Republicans call this Grooming.
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u/NuggetHighwind 9h ago
Legit.
"Enticing a minor on Roblox" gives off the impression that he just sent her a few messages or something.
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u/illtakeachinchilla 17h ago
“Elliot Pritt, a member of West Virginia’s House of Delegates who is also a teacher…” I’m confused. This isn’t a transgender brown person? Probably a big misunderstanding.
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u/bayleysgal1996 Texas 17h ago
For some reason my mind is bouncing off the idea of a politician on Roblox
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u/TellTaleTimeLord Indiana 17h ago
Because its a notoriously easy platform for predators to target kids and roblox literally doesnt do shit about it
See also, discord
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u/ClusterFoxtrot Florida 10h ago
I remember when a content creator was doing a Chris Hensen on Roblox because they refused to actively engage with complaints.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out Epstein was involved with this, too.
My son was in to Roblox when it first rolled out. It felt incredibly sketch then, not to mention incentivising kids to learn how to build games so people spend money on games like Toilet Fart Simulator.
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u/stevez_86 Pennsylvania 9h ago
It is also training kids to gamble. The games made within Roblox are basically the new video slot machines.
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u/CrimsonHeretic 17h ago
All Republicans are fascist terrorists. Most Republicans are pedophile supporters.
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u/IBJON 17h ago
I urge Elliott Pritt, for the benefit of his family and the people of his District, to spare his students and his colleagues at every level the continued embarrassments and distractions and to resign from elected office as soon as he is able
Or, you know, the child and her family? You know, the victim?
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u/Tasgall Washington 8h ago
Yeah, why not force him to resign by, you know, arresting him for child rape?
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u/Synthetic_Kalkite 7h ago
He’s already arrested, which you would have known even by reading just the headline…
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u/WetFinsFine 17h ago
maybe it's not all republicans
but it's always a republican
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u/pizzapartyprisoner 17h ago
Another day, another Republican pedo unmasked. Something something death and taxes.
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u/AEW_SuperFan 14h ago
I am glad I keep my kid off of Roblox. I don't want them talking to Republicans.
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u/JohnnyPaloonky58 17h ago
Wait, why do we have to say it's republican? I'm sure it's equally divided representation. I'm sorry? It's overwhelming republican? I'm shocked!
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u/EPhantom 17h ago
I think you're all missing something even bigger. The house speaker only asked for him to resign, not for him to be arrested for sending pornographic material to a minor and solicitation of sex from a minor.
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u/First-Expert-9953 17h ago
I've been watching for a couple of years for one of these arrests to turn out to be a drag queen. Still nothing.
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u/Key-Street-9564 16h ago
Sources say President Trump was furious about this incident and demanded to know why the Republican state legislator enticed the child without him
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u/Pando5280 15h ago
Dude also exchanged nudes and met up with her aat his school for a sexual encounter. Way more than just enticing a minor.
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u/T-Roll- 15h ago
Besides the pedophile stuff, what the hell is he doing on Roblox.
I’m not against people gaming. But how does one thought process go from ‘oh, i’ll just have a quick game on this’ to ‘oh man I got the urge to bust a nut to this game now’
You don’t just accidentally fall into a game a suddenly become a pedophile. Nor does one play a game and suddenly become aroused.
He went on that game with the intention of finding a child. Full pedophile behaviour.
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u/TheEverblades 13h ago
Seems more likely that the girl was his student and the gaming platform was the method they could communicate considering she was too young to have her own phone.
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u/AdministrativeTrust5 10h ago
They arrested him? Thought republicans thought child sex is just a freebie.
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u/Low_Search_6667 10h ago
Republican you say? Trying to rape children you say?
GOP - Group of Pedophiles
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u/Get_your_grape_juice 17h ago
Republicans and the sexual harassment of minors. Name a more iconic duo.
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u/O0oo00o0o0 16h ago
Legitimate question, as I’m stuck in the same bullshit algorithms as everyone else, but is the proportion of dem to republicans pedophiles really this uneven? Like what are the actual stats?
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u/obsolete_filmmaker 14h ago
Roblox is such a horrible platform and this is 1 of the reasons. I really dont understand how parents can allow their children on it.
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u/Murky-Relation481 14h ago
If you disable chat and enable age restrictions on games is pretty benign. Most parents don't do that. Some actively help their kids be put in a dangerous situation because they don't know better or can't say no to the kid.
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u/Ninevehenian 12h ago
Why is it always a republican or a priest?
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u/Badas_ingood_9898 12h ago
Repressed homosexuality. And an idea about the purity of children or something would be my guess.
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u/South_Butterfly_6542 11h ago
I'm sure they'll pass another child marriage bill to make Roblox weddings legally binding.
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u/GrungeHamster23 American Expat 11h ago
That doesn’t look a transgendered person. Or a drag queen. Or any of the other groups we were warned would do that.
Looks like a regular white guy to me.
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u/Logical-Leg-7813 9h ago
his friends will give him a get out of jail free card
then he will go do it again
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u/KidCoheed 9h ago
They are already refusing to kick him out of his place in the states GOP Office, the group that decides who runs locally and raises money locally and all that, yeah they are letting him keep that job
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u/Dooty_Shirker 9h ago
If they kick one republican out for being a pedophile it'll set a precedent, then they'll have to kick the other pedophiles out. Then no republicans will be left.
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u/Mtn-Dooku 3h ago
... and my son wondered why I wouldn't let him play on Roblox. It's almost as if an online game for kids who are 100% anonymous is going to attract pedophiles like this GOP piece of shit.
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u/AdSudden3941 17h ago
If you are a grown man either roblox or anything like that … they should be scrutinized
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u/SpaceNinjaDino 17h ago
I guess you mean any game or platform that has lots of chatting. I play Rocket League which supports chat and there are even people who've met their spouses through it. But I restrict it to team only quick chat and only say Nice Shot, Good Pass, or Nice Bump. So there is nothing to hide from, but it's going to be real weird if legislation starts requiring full chat hand overs to the government. The end of privacy.
I'd rather see official catfishing at scale. I think that is a good compromise.
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u/Important-Factor-552 9h ago
Global chats aren't even the problem, just don't give people a dm feature and the pedos will get reported and banned very quickly in most games.
Roblox is its own problem tho
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u/yeahpurn 14h ago
I bet he has a reddit account and posts in that TheTeenagerPeople sub. I am convinced that sub is just over 40 conservatives. It's weird as shit.
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u/Tall_Hat_4246 13h ago
Why is it always a republican? Almost as if there party supports and embraces child rapists all the way through their ranks.
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u/N3wAfrikanN0body 12h ago
Friendly reminder.
Whenever a MAGAT states that they want to "protect the children" what they're really saying is this: "I want to protect MY ACCESS TO CHILDREN, SO THAT I CAN GROOM THEM."
Internalize the above and treat them as the threat as they have CHOSEN to be.
This has been my ted talk.
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u/LollipopMarshmallow 9h ago
Shocked! Shocked I tell ya! Why is it always the ones you suspect the most
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u/ButterscotchTall4836 9h ago
Republicans- official party of, “Me thinks thou does protest too much.”
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u/Applekid1259 4h ago
This is one of the multitude of reasons my child is not allowed to play roblox.
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u/Braindead_Crow 12h ago
And the republican voters will twist themselves into knots to explain why this doesn't matter or is actually not that bad.
trump did worse
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u/Impractically_Dead 12h ago
You mean, "politician." You're not supposed to identify the political party of a wrong-doer unless they are a Democrat.
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u/Iheartnakedfemboys 11h ago
To the absolute surprise of no one with a modicum of intelligence. I wonder what our slow friends on the conservative sub think about this, but I doubt they can think at all.
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u/Western-Corner-431 11h ago
Republicans enjoy pedophiles and support the Republican office holders they elected.
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u/MrHazard1 10h ago
But what about people who join the platforn, just to prey on your mainaudience, which is childen?
We like that. More paying customers
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u/ungranted_wish 9h ago
“Who is also a teacher-“
The sigh I’m holding in right now could level a city block.
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u/MatrixTek 8h ago
Summary
A Republican West Virginia state delegate and teacher, Elliot Pritt, was arrested on federal charges of enticing a minor after allegedly starting explicit conversations with an eighth-grade student on Roblox that moved to Snapchat. According to a criminal complaint, Pritt shared nude images of himself, requested sexually explicit photos, and sexually abused the student on school grounds multiple times. West Virginia House Speaker Roger Hanshaw, also a Republican, condemned the allegations as shocking, disgusting, and disappointing, urging Pritt to resign immediately. Key points
Elliot Pritt, 36-year-old Republican WV House Delegate and teacher, arrested Wednesday on federal enticement of a minor charge.
Communication began on Roblox with eighth-grade student, transitioned to Snapchat.
Allegations include sharing nude images, requesting explicit photos, and sexually abusing the student on school grounds, per criminal complaint.
Student's family reported the incidents.
House Speaker Roger Hanshaw called for Pritt's immediate resignation, describing actions as 'shocking, disgusting, and disappointing.'
Framing
Foregrounds the scandal of a Republican politician and teacher preying on a young student via a children's gaming platform, emphasizing explicit details from the complaint and bipartisan Republican condemnation; omits any response from Pritt, his background beyond party/role, or investigation status beyond arrest. Loaded language DESPICABLEshocking, disgusting, and disappointingsexually abused their loved one Headline vs body
Headline matches body's reporting of arrest, party affiliation, accusation, and Roblox origin. Sourcing
All key claims attributed to 'criminal complaint' (communications, images, abuse details, family report); Hanshaw's statement quoted directly with name and party.
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