She claims LGBTQ+ rights need to be restricted to “protect kids,” but she appointed a man who admitted to having sex with a minor to a high-level position.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders ®, who has repeatedly pledged to “protect kids” with anti-LGBTQ+ laws, appointed a man to a top state prison post even though he had previously been fired from a local police force for receiving oral sex from a teen girl in a post office parking lot.
Jamol Jones, who Sanders appointed as chairman to the Arkansas Post-Prison Transfer Board in January, resigned last Friday after news agencies reported that the Benton Police Department fired him after he admitted to an internal affairs investigator that he had sexual relations as an adult with a 17-year-old girl, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.
It’s fucked up doubly, because the power dynamic of someone a decade older than someone who doesn’t have 2 or 3 decades under the belt is ridiculous to begin with. Now through in that he’s a police officer trained to identify teenagers who misrepresent their age for drugs and alcohol, and trained to enforce the law against them and against the people who commit sex crimes against them? He committed the crime he enforces the law against.