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FightFight

(211 posts)
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 02:17 PM Saturday

ACCORDING TO THE COMPILED LIST BELOW, 67.4% OF POLITICIANS ACCUSED OF PEDOPHILIA ARE REPORTED TO BE REPUBLICANS.

WILL THE REAL SEXUAL PREDATORS PLEASE STAND UP

This site was set up to allow public access to and easy verification of the data that goes into my TikTok series, Who's Making News for Sex Crimes Involving Children. This research project aggregates and analyzes news reports published about sexual assaults on children in the United States, and is designed to be fully verifiable. You can check the data by downloading the full database - just click the “Source Data” tab.

Here is the data summary from the 10885 cases in the database. The cases in the database run from February 10, 2023 through May 23, 2024

https://www.whoismakingnews.com/#who-are-the-real-predators

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ACCORDING TO THE COMPILED LIST BELOW, 67.4% OF POLITICIANS ACCUSED OF PEDOPHILIA ARE REPORTED TO BE REPUBLICANS. (Original Post) FightFight Saturday OP
And it's only 13.5% Democrats mainer Saturday #1
Important point as many (like me) will assume the rest are D. Thanks for pointing it out. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Saturday #2
13.5% is still too much Mossfern Saturday #5
That's an impressive web site canetoad Saturday #3
I thought so too..just bookmarked it. mountain grammy Saturday #15
Not surprised BoRaGard Saturday #4
How about this stat...100% of pedophiles are going to Hell - regardless of party affiliation. PeaceWave Saturday #6
Dang that what the Preacher man said. multigraincracker Saturday #10
GOPedo. ACCORDING TO THE COMPILED LIST BELOW, 67.4% OF...POLS...OF PEDOPHILIA ARE...REPUBLICANS. Nimble_Idea Saturday #7
This is a remarkably insensitive thread... PeaceWave Saturday #8
I was a victim of a family member. multigraincracker Saturday #11
I am very sorry to hear that. Most of the people commenting here will never understand your pain. PeaceWave Saturday #14
Thank you. Suffer from PTSD for years. multigraincracker Saturday #21
I am sure that you bring a great deal of empathy and understanding to that field... PeaceWave Saturday #31
[2] make nice Zackzzzz Saturday #29
I strongly disagree. It is ABSOLUTELY appropriate to point out that the folks who constantly harumph Saturday #16
I am with you PW DENVERPOPS Saturday #17
The data is a mirror of the moral attitude of the party members. patphil Saturday #23
Sure, let's talk about agendas (sentencing guidelines) in blue states such as California... PeaceWave Saturday #25
It is remarkably insensitive to pretend as you do that society has no interest or claim or cause to investigate Bernardo de La Paz Saturday #26
WELL VICTIMS SHOULD GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE PARTY AFFILIATION THE NEXT TIME THEY CONSIDER VOTING FightFight Saturday #32
This is what a big part of cultural conservatism is JI7 Saturday #9
I'm sure this will be the next topic discussed on Fox and Friends. Rhiagel Saturday #12
Incredible resource. Good job! Expect it to be attacked big time with the (r)epugs in power. erronis Saturday #13
Thank you for this, FightFight HariSeldon Saturday #18
90 % per capita are from Republican states. 3Hotdogs Saturday #19
According to that data, Republicans are 5 times more likely to be pedophiles than Democrats. patphil Saturday #20
Are we surprised ? No. republianmushroom Saturday #22
daily Kos also used to post about repuke sexual predators kimbutgar Saturday #24
Reddit has a subreddit called "pastor arrested" progressoid Yesterday #33
I actually thought the Figarosmom Saturday #27
Why are right wingers and the religious right so dead set against gays, trans, and others? --- Misdirection. keithbvadu2 Saturday #28
"accused" Unladen Swallow Saturday #30

Bernardo de La Paz

(51,471 posts)
2. Important point as many (like me) will assume the rest are D. Thanks for pointing it out. . . . nt
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 02:32 PM
Saturday

PeaceWave

(1,197 posts)
6. How about this stat...100% of pedophiles are going to Hell - regardless of party affiliation.
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 02:41 PM
Saturday

multigraincracker

(34,459 posts)
10. Dang that what the Preacher man said.
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 03:48 PM
Saturday

Turns out lots of Clergy members are high on the list too.

Nimble_Idea

(2,477 posts)
7. GOPedo. ACCORDING TO THE COMPILED LIST BELOW, 67.4% OF...POLS...OF PEDOPHILIA ARE...REPUBLICANS.
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 03:01 PM
Saturday

fixed your title.

PeaceWave

(1,197 posts)
8. This is a remarkably insensitive thread...
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 03:10 PM
Saturday

No victim of pedophilia gives a damn about the party affiliation of the monster who violated their innocence. No parent of a victim of pedophilia gives a damn about the party affiliation of the creep who physically and psychologically hurt their child. No extended family who ever had to deal with this issue gives a damn about the party affiliation of the human garbage who committed a crime that, in many ways, is worse than murder. It is a shameful thing to politicize this issue - Especially when neither party is doing nearly enough to prevent these crimes in the first place and to ramp up the sentencing for those who commit these crimes (And yes, pedophiles DO deserve the death sentence).

PeaceWave

(1,197 posts)
14. I am very sorry to hear that. Most of the people commenting here will never understand your pain.
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 04:07 PM
Saturday

Two things I would like to convey to you...

(1) It is not your fault. You almost certainly have heard this already.

(2) You are no less a person because of what happened. You survived to help others and for this you have a purpose.

multigraincracker

(34,459 posts)
21. Thank you. Suffer from PTSD for years.
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 05:20 PM
Saturday

Finally got a diagnosis when I was 40. That along with ADHD. Went back to college and received a Magna cum Laude degree in Clinical Psychology.
Peace.

PeaceWave

(1,197 posts)
31. I am sure that you bring a great deal of empathy and understanding to that field...
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 07:28 PM
Saturday

Hopefully, we as a society can do a better job of making the care you provide more accessible. Many years ago, it came to my attention that Kaiser only provided for 30 therapy sessions per year. At the time, I remember thinking that 52 sessions per year would be more appropriate. Perhaps this number has changed.

Zackzzzz

(5 posts)
29. [2] make nice
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 06:37 PM
Saturday

"You survived to help others and for this you have a purpose?"
no, no, no, I get no purpose out of an assault.
What I am hearing is, Will you drop It, already.

harumph

(2,415 posts)
16. I strongly disagree. It is ABSOLUTELY appropriate to point out that the folks who constantly
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 04:35 PM
Saturday

point fingers at democrats and LGBTQ, etc., and accuse us of perversion actually predominate in the statistics as percentage of pedophiles who identify as republican. It is absolutely appropriate because it's NOT EVEN CLOSE. We all know what a bunch of repressed twisted disgusting and excrable people predominate in the R party. And your argument is a straw man btw.

DENVERPOPS

(10,223 posts)
17. I am with you PW
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 05:01 PM
Saturday

There is no cure, so remove them from society permanently...........Same with Murderers, Rapists, and most CEO's in my opinion.

patphil

(7,167 posts)
23. The data is a mirror of the moral attitude of the party members.
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 05:22 PM
Saturday

Last edited Sat Jan 4, 2025, 08:56 PM - Edit history (1)

Republicans in general care less about people than Democrats. Just look at their agendas.
Republicans are all in as "God fearing Christians", but that's not how they act. Actions always speak louder than words.
It's not so much about the party, as it is about the kind of people who are attracted to the party.
This isn't about the politics, it's about the people who think in a certain way when it comes to politics.
Republicans are pro-life? Only until the baby is born. Pedophilia is just another indicator of the BS of their political position.
Insensitive? I don't think so.

PeaceWave

(1,197 posts)
25. Sure, let's talk about agendas (sentencing guidelines) in blue states such as California...
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 05:43 PM
Saturday

Last edited Sat Jan 4, 2025, 06:17 PM - Edit history (1)

Keep in mind that in California Democrats have, for years, held a supermajority in the state legislature, which is to say that the following can be changed:

5 years in state prison for the crime of incest? 8 years? 10 years? A $10,000 fine? This from California Penal Code Section 288...

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=288.&lawCode=PEN

1 year in county jail for the crime of molesting a minor? 2 years in state prison? 4 years? 6 years? A $5,000 fine? This from California Penal Code Section 647.6...

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=647.6.&lawCode=PEN

Does any of this sound satisfactory to you? Politicizing the crimes of molestation and incest to suggest that one side cares "more" or "less" only lays bare that neither side is doing the universally RIGHT thing to do.

Bernardo de La Paz

(51,471 posts)
26. It is remarkably insensitive to pretend as you do that society has no interest or claim or cause to investigate
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 05:49 PM
Saturday

It is remarkably insensitive to pretend as you do that society has no interest or claim or cause to investigate the causes of it and to prevent it (which comes from understanding). Yes, grieving family members might not care, but that is no reason to block and censor and object to this information. Yes, more could be done, but the perfect is the enemy of the good.

In passing, the death penalty would do nothing to deter pedophiles who are not already deterred by years in prisons filled with violent pedophile haters.

It is also remarkably insensitive to write off the hypocrisy of Republicons on this issue; especially the way they pretend it is only a Democratic issue or throw in firebombs against 2SLGBTQ+. Fighting that hypocrisy helps 2SLGBTQ+ people, who need support and help against the incoming authoritarian con christo-fascist government which, you should know, is Republican.

Have you been coccooned so that you have not seen or heard or read of the maga fabrications against Biden?

FightFight

(211 posts)
32. WELL VICTIMS SHOULD GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE PARTY AFFILIATION THE NEXT TIME THEY CONSIDER VOTING
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 07:32 PM
Saturday

NOT ONLY ARE REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS MORE LIKELY TO COMMIT HENIOUS SEXUALLY VIOLENT CRIMES ACCORDING TO THIS DATA

THE CURRENT HEAD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY--DONALD JOHN TRUMP-- HAS BEEN ADJUCATED BY THE COURTS AS ONE WHO ENGAGAED IN SUCH

MULTIPLE MEMBERS OF HIS CABINET HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF HEINOUS SEX CRIMES--NOT ONE BUT MULTIPLE

AND

TO TOP IT OFF ALL OF THESE PEOPLE ARE AGAINST HELPING WOMEN AFFECTED OR VICITIMIZED BY SUCH...LOCKING OFF ACCESS TO ABORTIONS IN THE CASES OF RAPE AND OR INCEST....THAT IN MY DEFINITION IS WHERE THE WORD INSENSITIVE COMES IN..NOT BOTHSIDES ETC ETC....TO MAKE MATTERS WORST IN THE LAST 5 YEARS THE REPUBLICAN ELECTORATE ELECTED AT LEAST 2 POLITICIANS WHO KNOWNILY COMMITED INCEST ON THEIR OWN KIDS--A ROBERT SOMETHING IN KANSAS/MISSOURI WHO WAS ALLOWED TO RUN THEN THE PARTY FORCED HIM TO RESIGN AFTER PUBLIC OUTCRY AND THERE WAS SOMEONE ELSE THIS PAST ELECTION
...THIS KEEPS HAPPENING...---

Missouri House expels Rick Roeber, a Republican accused of sexually abusing his children

Koskan gets 10 years in prison on incest charges


PROBABLY IF THE VOTING PUBLIC PAID MORE ATTENTION THE WHITE HUSE WOULD NOT HAVE AN ADJUCATED RAPIST AS ITS NEXT OCCUPANT--IMAGINE HAVING TO LOOK AT SOMEONE LIKE THAT EVERYDAY AFTER ONE HAS BEEN SECUALLY ABUSED---IN MY OPINION THAT IS INSENSITIVE

erronis

(17,288 posts)
13. Incredible resource. Good job! Expect it to be attacked big time with the (r)epugs in power.
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 03:59 PM
Saturday

HariSeldon

(512 posts)
18. Thank you for this, FightFight
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 05:01 PM
Saturday

Well researched facts are fundamental to reality-based debate and governance. I know MAGAs and even many other Republicans are unwilling to engage in reality-based debate or governance, but I keep faith in people independently rediscovering the benefits of the scientific method...I mean, it happened once before.

Governing without the relevant statistics tends to result in a lot of "Something must be done about this problem...this is something, so let's do it," without regard for whether "this" addresses a significant part -- or even any -- of the stated problem.

patphil

(7,167 posts)
20. According to that data, Republicans are 5 times more likely to be pedophiles than Democrats.
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 05:14 PM
Saturday

67.4% Republican
13.5% Democrat

I'm not sure the sample is big enough to make that strong a generalization, but the data says what it says.
It's interesting to note that the state with the highest per capita number of cases in South Dakota, and the state with the lowest per capita cases in Delaware.

republianmushroom

(18,273 posts)
22. Are we surprised ? No.
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 05:21 PM
Saturday

The law and order party and republican family values all for show.

Parents protect your children from the 3-C's, conservatives, cops, clergy.

kimbutgar

(23,683 posts)
24. daily Kos also used to post about repuke sexual predators
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 05:27 PM
Saturday
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/10/23/1806673/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-1

I posted part 1 but there are over 30+ posts about them!

I’m bookmarking your site very fascinating. In California we have to take an online class every couple of years to identify if kids are being abused in anyway and report it and maybe it’s one of the reason we are lower down the list as opposed to red state magaloons.

progressoid

(50,823 posts)
33. Reddit has a subreddit called "pastor arrested"
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 05:09 AM
Yesterday
https://www.reddit.com/r/PastorArrested/

It is not limited to the US; nevertheless, it is disturbingly long.

keithbvadu2

(40,635 posts)
28. Why are right wingers and the religious right so dead set against gays, trans, and others? --- Misdirection.
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 06:08 PM
Saturday

Why are right wingers and the religious right so dead set against gays, trans, and others? --- Misdirection.

Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers Pt. 52

https://www.dailykos.com/blogs/CajsaLilliehook

Unladen Swallow

(319 posts)
30. "accused"
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 06:56 PM
Saturday

How many are convicted? How many allegations turn out to be false? Honest question, as I have no idea the stats for either. All I know is that powerful men and powerful women seem to attract allegations. I've seen it happen to men and women both.

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