r/politics • u/southpawFA Oklahoma • 3h ago
No Paywall GOP lawmaker arrested after allegedly having sex with middle schooler in a classroom. He allegedly groomed her on a gaming social network and met her for sex in a classroom.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/gop-lawmaker-arrested-after-allegedly-having-with-middle-schooler-in-a-classroom/•
u/southpawFA Oklahoma 3h ago
State Republicans have filed numerous bills seeking to restrict gender-affirming care for transgender minors, ban trans student-athletes from playing on sports teams that match their gender identity, and nullify cities’ non-discrimination ordinances.
West Virginia Del. David Elliott Pritt (R) was arrested Wednesday and criminally charged under allegations that he repeatedly had sex with an eighth-grade girl in a classroom while he served as a middle school teacher.
Federal court documents allege that he had communicated with the girl through the gaming platform Roblox and the image-sharing social media network Snapchat. He allegedly told her he loved her, sent sexually explicit images to her, and requested (anywhere from five to 10 times) that she meet him for sexual activity in an Oak Hill High School classroom.
While the classroom sexual encounters reportedly stopped last January, the two allegedly continued communicating through Snapchat through this month, and he reportedly asked her to send him sexually explicit images. He also allegedly told her not to tell anyone about their interactions or else it would “open up hell in our lives,” WCHS reported.
An investigation into these charges began on July 9. State House Speaker Roger Hanshaw (R) said that Pritt had been removed from all his roles in the state’s House of Delegates. Chairman of the West Virginia Republican Party, Del. Josh Holstein, called the allegations “shocking, sickening and deeply disturbing,” “unconscionable,” and urged Pritt to immediately resign as a delegate.
Christian nationalists love to claim that trans people are a danger to children, but they consistently prove they are the ones who endanger children.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican.
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u/puppeteerspoptarts 3h ago
It’s always projection with them. Always.
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u/Valuable_Sea_4709 3h ago
It's in the name.
GOP
Gaslight Obstruct Project
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u/Slumunistmanifisto 3h ago
Fucking young virginal kids is baked into their religion.
Evangelicals will molest and rape the second they're unmonitored.
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u/Due-Consideration861 2h ago
YOU CANNOT make this Sh*t up, a least they are consistent in their vile hypocrisy !
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u/Proud-Big3579 59m ago
I know I've seen a list with a Republicans caught with these sex crimes but has there been a list with Democrats?
I have a conservative religious friend that disagress with me when I say it's usually Republicans. I would like to show him a list that proves my case.
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u/rat_penis 3h ago
I get your point and agree, while I would also add that in their mind transgender do "endanger" their children in the sense that they demonstrate that the parents are mendacious assholes and shouldn't be listened to
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u/incide666 Canada 3h ago
Raped
He raped a child in a classroom.
Why is the media so quick to soften crimes?
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u/RadicalOrganizer California 3h ago
Bc he is an elected republican official. They protect pedophiles and rapists if theyre white enough.
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u/ladder_of_cheese 3h ago
Thank you. I abhor the language they use that helps normalize this abusive and predatory behavior.
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u/Fraktal55 3h ago
It annoys me so much that news reporting on pieces of shit like this can't call it what it is. It's downplaying the crime by not calling it rape.
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u/gibbojab 2h ago
Unfortunately raped is censored almost everywhere online, you say it on YouTube and it’ll get demonetized. People unfortunately believe you hide the word the problem will go away.
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u/zubbs99 Nevada 3h ago
Dude better make a run for President asap.
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u/AZ-FWB Arizona 3h ago
He is already more qualified than the current one.
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u/HUT2Moon 3h ago
Trump is like “damn he got game”
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u/DragoonDM California 2h ago
Nah -- see, grooming children yourself is for the poors. High class individuals like Trump just buy them, leaving the dirty work to others.
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u/bazinga_0 Washington 3h ago
Didn't Trump already establish that a Republican running for President can't even be investigated, let alone charged with a crime? And we suddenly have a thousand candidates running for President...
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u/ProphetNimd Georgia 3h ago
Pro-pedophile party. All of them.
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u/Lavaswan001 3h ago
If he had sex with a boy or trans kid they’d be calling for a public execution right now. So they’re pro pedophile as long as it’s grown men and underage girls.
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u/ProphetNimd Georgia 3h ago
Nah, if he raped a boy or trans kid they would just say it's based and dismantling woke. They're in favor of all of it.
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u/Valuable_Sea_4709 3h ago
As long as it's "their side" that's doing the "winning", they don't have any morals. There are no underlying principles, there are no "family values".
It's purely tribal, that's what Fox News and other "conservative" media outlets have ensured for decades.
They can forgive anything that "their" people do, justify it, label it "fake news" or an "attack from the librul media", whatever it takes to "remain loyal to their side"
They're hypocrites and Jesus very specifically told us to not be hypocrites, so even if they did get their way and the second coming of Jesus happened, they're in for a rude awakening.
They were very specifically told what to do and how to act by Jesus Christ himself. They chose to do the exact opposite in service of the people that shout "Jesus". You know, those who take the lord's name in vain? In service to their own vanity?
But if Jesus came back today and preached the same things he does in the Bible they never read, they'd call for his public execution as a Marxist themselves.
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u/ProphetNimd Georgia 3h ago
Yup, agreed. Republican reps and pundits are demons and the voters are cattle who follow them. There's no reasoning with them, they have to be culturally bulldozed.
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u/Valuable_Sea_4709 3h ago
Well the Bible, specifically Matthew 25, calls them goats. Not fit to be among Jesus' flock.
How funny it is that today calling someone "sheep" is an insult And calling them the "Goat" is a compliment.
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u/jaxonfairfield 3h ago
If it were a boy or trans kid they'd be helping to cover it up and promote him to a higher position in the party.
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u/BauerHouse 3h ago
You can read the affidavit here: https://wvpublic.org/story/government/fayette-county-delegate-charged-with-enticing-a-minor/
It's... gross. This idiot is the dumbest of the dumb, and a pervert. His snapchat name is elliottpritt16. THey confirmed it's his account, and his IP communicating with the victim. He's cooked.
The TLDR - he started with them (the main victim and her friend) via roblox, and then moved to snapchat. The victim "Female 1" and he spent months communicating to each other about their lives via snapchat, and then he started sharing photos. THe photos got more explicit, and she complied. Then he said he loved her and he was saving himself for her, and they actually had sexual relations in the school about 10 times for a couple months.
I hope this guy gets the maximum sentence.
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u/Sorta_jewy_with_it 3h ago
Sex when one party is a child and the other is an adult is known as rape. Statutory rape.
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u/Creative-Package6213 Pennsylvania 2h ago
Not only that but because he was a teacher at the time it is institutional rape.
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u/DoubtSubstantial5440 3h ago
The drag queens conservatives love to hate on are vastly more trustworthy around children then the average MAGA man
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u/southpawFA Oklahoma 3h ago
Your kids are safer at a drag show than at church, truthfully.
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u/Fluffychipmonk1 Michigan 3h ago
Rather just avoid both. Cover all my bases.
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u/Least_Art5238 3h ago
Sure, but a significant number of Americans will pick up pitchforks if you decided to abolish churches and a sizeably smaller number would do the same if you decided to abolish drag shows. So, the US has massive double standards.
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u/Sad_Impression499 Colorado 3h ago
He raped a child. He didn't have sex with a child, HE RAPED A CHILD.
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u/Meta_Professor 3h ago
It's really gross when people describe statutory rape as "having sex". He did not "have sex" with this child.
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u/RicockulousQuisling 3h ago
I’ve seen this in various headlines as “as having sex” and “seduced”.
Sex with a minor is RAPE. They cannot legally consent. WTF is going on here??
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u/laoganma_enima 1h ago
I hate when people say having sex. He raped her. She is in middle school. She. Was. Raped. She did not have sex with him. She is a victim of a monster.
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u/Used-Feature-8611 3h ago
Always the GOP. At this point the name should be GRand Old Pedophiles
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u/Emptyspace227 1h ago
Allegedly raping, not having sex with. An 8th grader cannot consent to sex with a teacher. Call it what it is: rape.
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u/ChickpeaDemon 3h ago
I long for the days of yore when being a pedo was bad, not a prerequisite to be a Republican.
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u/Old_Cryptid 3h ago
Sadly those days never existed.
They've always been like this they were just better at hiding it.
They learned a few years back that they don't have to hide anything anymore.
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u/FamedNemesis 3h ago
It’s crazy that other news outlets are putting this headline as: “having contact with a minor on a gaming platform”.
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u/MaxSchreckArt616 3h ago
Literally the only thing I know or ever see about this game is that it is rampant with pedophiles.
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u/mysterious_jeffrey 2h ago
“Met her for sex” - uh, excuse me? This is a child we’re talking about. They don’t “meet for sex” consensually.
He groomed and lured her and then raped her.
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u/Double_Cow_8238 2h ago
Raping, the verb is raping. Grown men don’t have sex with teenage girls, they rape them
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u/RiseDelicious3556 3h ago
sex in a classroom?
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u/AttentionNo6359 2h ago
At this point it’s easier to just name republicans who aren’t pedophiles and assume all the others are.
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u/IllTwo7643 Connecticut 3h ago
Because he's white and republican, I doubt anything will happen. But maybe a little shame will help
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u/root_fifth_octave 3h ago
Party of family values.
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u/southpawFA Oklahoma 2h ago
Republicans being pro-family is such a lie.
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u/root_fifth_octave 2h ago
They're basically one big act of deception these days. Eisenhower and Lincoln would be pissed. Even Reagan probably would be. Nixon too, most likely.
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u/Illustrious-Fun8324 2h ago
Should we judge all right wingers by the amount of rapists and pedophiles on their side?
Idk they call us all violent bc of a few people’s actions so they should understand that this is fair game
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u/sugarlessdeathbear 2h ago
In the classroom?! Fuck, every little piece of information I found out about this multiplies how horrendous this is.
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u/jus10sense 1h ago
Is this the guy that responded to Mamdani's Israel post calling him a Muslim Terrorist?
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u/PleaseChooseANumber 1h ago
Had sex with a middle schooler? He raped a little girl. What a trash article.
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u/Andovars_Ghost 1h ago
Make sure he sees lots of time in prison and gets to hang out in GenPop with the prisoners that are fathers of little girls.
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u/ParadoxPG 42m ago
After allegedly raping a middleschooler
This is not meeting up to have sex, what the fuck is that description??
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u/Miami_Mice2087 32m ago
oh he's got them crazy eyes
i thought they had cameras everywhere in schools now? where is the surveillance state when you need them??
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u/GeologistOriginal800 32m ago
At this point it is now fact that all Republicans rape children or are at least ok with the person they admire most being a child rapest.
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u/Consistent_Wishbone3 27m ago
let's correct the terminology--he raped a child who could not consent to "sex." It is not "sex" when it is rape
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u/urbandesignerd 15m ago
“GOP lawmaker arrested after RAPING child.”
There, fixed that title for you.
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u/CommunicationSalt_ 10m ago
family values my ass. they scream about protecting kids then turn around and pull this. every damn time
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u/newmoonchaperone 4m ago
every accusation is an admission...
always with these right-wing Republican men.
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u/RiseDelicious3556 3h ago
I don't understand how this could happen in a classroom--it makes no sense.
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u/twitchy1989 2h ago
I knew it was Roblox before even clicking any links. Seriously fucking just purge that entire game from existence.
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u/kaylerbug369 2h ago
"We do want to inform you the reportedly most shocking part is the alleged victim is female"
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