Columbia, SC (AP) – Member of the Republican South Carolina Palace, who says prosecutors say the use of the screen name “Joebidennnnnnnnnnnn69” has been arrested and accused of distributing 10 calculations for distributing sexual abuse materials in which children participated.
RJ May was arrested in his Lexington County house after a long investigation, and a federal judge told him to remain in prison on Thursday.
Based on court documents that have described the videos in graphically, about five days in 2024. In the spring, the Republican is accused of changing 220 cases of 220 different young children and young children involved in sexual activities on the KIK Social Media Network.
The conviction has been sentenced to five to 20 years’ imprisonment for each charge, and prosecutors are offered that May can spend more than a decade in prison if he is found guilty.
The files were uploaded and downloaded using the May-Fi house and its cell phone, prosecutors said. Some were hidden using a private network, but others were directly linked to its internet addresses.
May says someone else could have used his Wi-Fi
In his custody May, a lawyer suggested that someone could have used a Wi-Fi password that was shown on a board for a photo for the photo that may be posted online on the Internet. Attorney -at -law, Dayne Phillips, also suggested investigators directly linked Kik’s report directly.
Prosecutors asked that a 38 -year -old 38 may be given a deposit because he lives at home with his wife and young children, and some cases accused of sharing the same age as his children as his.
May investigated for paid sex in Colombia
Prosecutors said they also investigated whether May used a fake name three times to travel to Colombia, finding videos on their laptop who allegedly had sex with three women. The agent of the Homeland Security Department testified that women appeared minors and were paid. US agents could not find women.
Prosecutors said May had created a Facebook account with his fake name, and his internet history showed that he had moved from the real account and fake, and even searched for his main opponent from a fake login.
Phillips, May’s lawyer, said in the courtroom that no sexual images of children or young children were found on his laptop or mobile phone.
Spent the night in prison. May Shorts and t -shirts with wrists and ankles appeared in court on Thursday. After he was told to stay in prison, he appeared to blow a kiss with his wife, who was at the meeting.
May the political ascent to the State House
After the May election in 2020 He helped create Freedom Caucus, a group of the most conservative palace members, which says the main Republicans of the palace are not the true conservative GOP heart. He also helped Republican campaigns against the GOP home market participants.
“As legislators, we must make sure that our children have not done any harm to them,” said May 2024. January On the floor of the home during the debate about the supervision of minors’ transgender.
His son fascinated the house in 2021. April, when May brought him to visit his third birthday and the boy practiced his parade wave around the camera.
Freedom Caucus announced a statement Wednesday night saying that after his arrest, they threw them out of their group in May.
May spent the quiet 2025. Home session
Many of his one -off friends have been alienated since May as rumors of the investigation have spread through the state house. During the current session, it could be mostly visible at its corner table at the end of the 124 -seat chamber, stirring with very few colleagues.
The chairman of the house suspended in May of his place after the indictment.
May’s lawyer suggested that he could have been framed and asked the homeland security agent to know that May has many political enemies.
“There are quite a few people who don’t like me, Mr Phillips,” Agent Britton Lorenen replied.