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.
Once more for the people in the back.
Republicans are the party of pedophiles and Nazis.
This is very on brand for these awful people.
“Sexual affairs with a 17yo” aka Statutory Rape.
Nope. Age of consent is 16 in Arkansas.
Doesn’t matter if you have a position of power over the minor. If you’re a cop for example
If she is allowed to do dangerous work in abattoirs, she can consent to sex.
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders, probably
Sounds like you want to fuck a kid.
Do you know what the word “statutory” means? They were making a factual correction.
We don’t say shit like thay around here, bud. Go somewhere else.
I run into you everywhere! Hard agree, we’re better than that here.
See you around, friend!
Then let me rephrase, the only people who bring up the age of consent in this context are incredibly suspicious.
The top level comment is literally accusing him of breaking a law that is dependent on the minor’s age. Pointing to the fact that he didn’t actually violate the law because the person was old enough to legally consent as suspicious says more about your insecurities than the person who lives in reality.
I’m so glad lemmy is different like this. Here’s hoping we can keep it that way.
He did break the law by having sex with a minor while being a police officer. That is a crime, and he was fired for it and lying about it to internal affairs. He just wasn’t prosecuted because reasons.
Fair enough, I did not read the whole article, hypocritically. I decided to read the rest and see if is a violation of state law, but I would be curious if that it’s statutory rape.
Amogus
Someone insisted it should be called statutory rape. I fact checked. If you find fact checking suspicious, that’s a you problem.
Stating a fact is not agreeing with the fact. If they brought it up randomly at a dinner party after talking about kids, yes that’s suspicious. But, this is a conversation about a person who had sex with a minor, and naturally the question of “what came of that?” could be considered. The answer would be “nothing,” but only because the age of consent law was not broken in that state. If the age of consent law was broken, it’s likely the person would have a Felony. States have different laws, and they need to be considered for everyone to understand the situation.
In Sweden too. I think. Or is it 15 still? Nån färsk torsk som vet?
Anyway, I think this is the first time Sweden and Arkansas have ever had anything in common. I don’t know if I should laud them for being so progressive and enlightened as us Europeans, or if I should make me more suspicious of Swedes.
More suspicious of the Swedes.
Incorrect.
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Sometimes I really wonder if USA is actually real, or if it is some holographic projection Russian psyop. Wait… Wait a gad damn minute.
Damn she is really foul, inside and out.
How do people vote for cartoon villains
Because they themselves are cartoon villains.
The Republican party is a mob of pedophiles
I mean, I’ve had sex with a minor.
I was 16, but just pointing out that headlines can be meaningless bullshit.
Damn I didn’t know she is a governor now… but of course. She was the lying disgusting face of the Trump administration. These people are fucking scary.
I don’t think calling them out on their hypocrisy is really going to move the needle. They are basically gas-lighting sociopath trolls who thrive on sadism.
This is dated three days ago:
Jamol Jones out as Arkansas parole board chairman following revelations
Fucked up that she lied about her age. Fucked up that he cheated on his wife.
I feel like you’re downplaying how bad the guy is, maybe it’s just your wording. But, to me… this dude got away with stat rape and then got hired at the VA doing the same law enforcement gig AFTER lying to investigators about it.
He fucked up good and should have gone to jail for it, not kept his career and fallen upward.
Yeah, you’re right. I don’t think what he did was right. Then he lied and lost his job because of it. I don’t think public office is the place for a person like that.
I think the inner anxiety I have is the fact that I’ve never asked for IDs from anyone, although I’ve never had reason to believe I was ever doing anything illegal. But I didn’t even know asking for ID was a thing, but it makes sense.
So I guess I feel a bit of sympathy towards him at that moment because I could see myself potentially making the same mistake, not out of malice but out of stupidity?
No disagreement from me though, you are right. Just trying to figure out if my sympathy is misplaced or if I’m just too naive.
He was trained to do that. It’s his job. Your sympathy is severely misplaced.
He is over a decade older than her, he knew he should have questioned her age both as a significantly older man and as a police officer trained to do that and recognize underage people misrepresenting their ages. He knew and can’t play dumb. The guy knew and willfully chose to hide behind the excuse of ‘willful ignorance’
Even if she was 18 a cop using his authority that way is so fucked up.
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.
Awww, just look at this GOP family values on display!
What da fook
And somehow none of us are surprised in the slightest.
It’s a just minor inconvenience
Just republican shit.
That’s SO Arkansas!
Seriously, though, Sarah Fuckabee Sanders is a shit-filled condom of a person.
