Former GOP Hill aide pleads guilty in child porn case
Source: Politico
Ruben Verastigui, 27, entered the guilty plea from jail during a video conference hearing before U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C.
Verastigui admitted to possession of 152 videos and 50 images of child pornography and to receiving and distributing sexual depictions of children.
According to an affidavit filed in the case in February by a Department of Homeland Security investigator, Verastigui sought out images of rape of children during an online chat last year. Prosecutors said Verastigui also fantasized online about killing children while abusing them.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/09/former-hill-aide-pleads-guilty-child-porn-498937
Ocelot II
(115,576 posts)Not that Democrats are 100% pure, but the GOP does seem to have more than its share of creeps, weirdos, pervs, grifters and violent lunatics.
zuul
(14,624 posts)IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)it's like there was a shadowy conspiracy to get them to look at the wrong party or something like that.
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Ocelot II
(115,576 posts)isn't because the perp personally abused a child with his fantasies; it's because the production of child pornography necessarily requires the sexual abuse of children to feed these fantasies. So, yes, by acquiring these images so he could get off on them, he did abuse the children who were used to produce them. No demand = no supply.
Aristus
(66,275 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,444 posts)Ruben Verastigui is the former Republican aide facing a child pornography charge in Washington, D.C. According to the Metropolitan Police Department, Verastigui was arrested on February 5 following a nearly year-long investigation.
Verastigui was working for the Senate Republican Conference when the investigation began, according to his LinkedIn page. He previously worked for the Republican National Committee and his job included designing digital ads for former President Donald Trumps re-election campaign, Verastigui noted on his LinkedIn account.
Court records show a public defender was assigned to represent Verastigui. Heavy reached out to the attorney for comment. We have not yet heard back.
Heres what you need to know:
1. Verastigui Wrote in a Group Chat That He Enjoyed Watching Pornography Involving Babies: Report
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2. Verastigui Was the President of an Anti-Abortion Group in College & Spoke at a National March for Life Rally in 2013
More:
https://heavy.com/news/ruben-verastigui/
Lunabell
(6,044 posts)When do we actually start protecting children?
AnnetteChaffee
(1,979 posts)while in the uterus. Once they are out, they better pull themselves up by their bootstraps cuz they are on their own.
AnnetteChaffee
(1,979 posts)why am i not surprised that nearly every single time a government official gets caught "with their pants down", they are republican?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say 8 out of 10 times, its the hypocritical GOP who get caught, and I may be being generous, it's probably 9/10. How do they EVER think that they are the holders of truth, goodness, or the right way of things? They are in many/most cases, everything that they supposedly stand against! How do those who are actually decent republicans (I'm sure there are some out there ) not see this, or do they see it and they just don't care?
It is sickening and my heart aches over the way my country is right now. It is almost a fight of Light versus Darkness. I know Light will win, but dear goodness, the war is hard on those of us who must live through it....
Namaste
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