Palm Beach County Clerk of Court Michael Caruso, a former Republican state legislator who previously backed the death penalty for adults convicted of sexually battering children under 12, was arrested Tuesday on five felony child sex abuse charges.
The 67-year-old married father of seven, who was appointed by Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, faces five felony counts: kidnapping, child molestation, lewd exhibition, luring or enticing a child and child abuse causing mental injury, an arrest affidavit shows.
Investigators in Florida say Caruso violated a child—who is a relative—and allege the abuse occurred multiple times from fall 2024 to August 2025, including on a family cruise, a fishing outing and during a Thanksgiving gathering. The child has been receiving therapeutic services since April 2026, according to the police affidavit.
Its always the ones you most suspect.
Hoist by his own pedo-tard?
The rare case of a leopard eating its own face.
Hoisted by his own petard.
Only if he gets the death penalty.
I notice he still isn’t a trans person or a drag queen.
Dude has an iron-clad defense, though. Said it’s only abuse if the child is the same sex and he likes women/girls. I really wish I were making that up.
Edit: wow, I actually totally misunderstood his absurd defense. He actually said “sexual deviancy is directed towards one sex rather than two” and since he’s attracted to women (when the victim here was a boy) he can’t possibly be a sex offender. I think we’ve finally found something so far gone that even MAGAts can’t support it.
Not that I don’t believe you, but do you have a source for that? It’s so outrageous I need to see it myself.
🤢 That is one of the most disgusting claims I’ve seen. I’m normally against the death penalty but scum like this makes me question my stance.
I mean, he himself called for people like him to face the death penalty. I am anti death penalty, but I am also in favor of medically assisted suicide for those who fully consent, so if he’s opting-in I say let’s do it.
@chewypoops @TrickDacy Emasculation.
Yeah, it’s normal to generally be against it but some people just don’t fit into that. It should be reserved for the most evil people.
Thanks! Also, gross!
Not only a pedophile but also a sexist. But somehow that makes it better in Republican eyes.
What else can we expect? if you have read The Handmaid’s Tale, the authorities there were the most corrupt. Republicans and far right folks want to make USA what it was in The Handmaid’s Tale. Wokes too are so bending towards the Islamists that they too will end up making USA a sharia state.
I never see leftists embrace Sharia-like rules or laws. The only ‘fuzzy’ thing is headscarves that seem to be understood as both an expression of religion and an instrument of oppression. Besides this contradictory feature I don’t see any move towards Islamic rule.
Do you?
Yes
Never was a truer username chosen
thanks
I was with you until that last sentence.
Never mind. These political labels are too small for me.
0/10 trollpoints
well cannot beat the biggest trolls in the governments
wokes too are so bending towards the Islamists that they too will end up making USA a sharia state.
wow, it’s not enough that one party is literally CHOCK FULLA PEDOS, no it’s gotta be both somehow, even though the evidence CLEARLY POINTS IN ONE DIRECTION.
show me the evidence for the left pushing sharia law. show me, or admit you’re fucking wrong.
there is no such thing as absolute right and wrong.
Damn bro. Protecting pedophiles?
That’s how far you’ll go for the gop? When you know they’re sex criminals, you’ll still defend them?
there is no such thing as absolute right and wrong.
sick
Wait - you’re trying to say that the left is actually hard right? Because Sharia is pretty undeniably very conservative. Actually, The Handmaid’s Tale fits much more closely with what republicans want. I think maybe you’re a bit confused mate.
maybe I am cuz everything is so confusing and like from what I heard from right wing is that the left deliberately hid the grooming gang cases to appease Islamists and like in UK, it is left that allowed ikhwanis in the British universities. They hate west.
It’s a safe bet that anything you heard from the right is bullshit or warmed-over hasbara.
I live in the UK. The police used woke as an excuse for their own incompetence in investigating the grooming gangs.
I know a lot of British Muslims. None are Ikhwaan.
The only people burning down other people’s homes over here are white rightwingers.
First time meeting a brit who is not right wing. Check your DMs here in Lemmy.
holy shit…
Hang him
It’s what he would have wanted…
I’m against the death penalty except for people who advocate it’s use in punishing crimes they are guilty of.
He called for death penalty for sexual abuse of children under 12. Weird that he picked that age, specifically…
There are a few states that have similar terms. I suppose the idea is that if the victim hasn’t reached puberty, it’s more devastating?
I’m against it being used against the working class.
However billionares/politicians that use their power to undermine justice, subvert democracy, and avoid punishment for their own crimes, cannot be reformed and need to be made an example of.
I’m absolutely against it until we have a 100% reliable method of proving guilt. There are definitely some people who shouldn’t be breathing air, but I don’t trust the legal system to apply this penalty fairly and correctly in every case. Also, if we absolutely knew someone was guilty there’s no need for such a prolonged appeals process - take em down to the courthouse basement and bolt gun their head like a farm animal.
Damn, the death penalty for hypocrisy is intense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull
After finishing construction on the execution device, Perilaus said to Phalaris: “His screams will come to you through the pipes as the tenderest, most pathetic, most melodious of bellowings.” Perilaus believed he would receive a reward for his invention. Instead, Phalaris, who was disgusted by these words, ordered its horn sound system to be tested by Perilaus himself, tricking him into getting in the bull. When Perilaus entered, he was immediately locked in and the fire was set, so that Phalaris could hear the sound of Perilaus’ screams. Before Perilaus could die, Phalaris ordered him removed from the bull. After freeing him from the bull, Phalaris is then said to have had Perilaus thrown to his death from atop a high cliff.
Someone once posted a heroic comment, they broke down all politicians by party who had been convicted of sex crimes with children … it was pretty one sided
I saw the list on Reddit, pages. Endless pages.
It’s always the ones who you suspect.
and not the ones they tell you to fear
The people who benefit most from people believing that pedophiles are typically members of a specific minority group are pedophiles who aren’t members of that group
Nope. I disagree.
Life in gen pop prison.
For however long gen pop decides “life” is. Could be days, could be a torturous number of years. Either way, it should be fucking awful.
Say it with me…
“Every accusation is a…”
Banana!
Admittance of guilt?
I dunno. I feel like there some mild rhyming you’re looking for.
Confession
Lie?
So I’m not for killing every pedophile, but I think killing this one would be too funny. I’ll never forgive us if we don’t.
Killing them puts their victims in danger. If they know they are going to die for the crime, they’ll kill the child to keep the secret.
Okay but see killing this one would be really funny, so I think we need to. Is the law named after him? I hope it’s named after him.
Can’t help but agree with you
Thing is, cons want to label queer people as pedos for existing in public, and then execute them under those laws (its in project 2025) which is why he’s pushing that law. With selective enforcement; cons get to marry their victims.
They want to kill us no matter what. Fuck that. Call their bluff. Them calling me a pedophile doesn’t make me pro pedophile-they want to kill me. Be more than an easily manipulated object.
How it’s possible?
Projection is assumed these days.
I am against the death penalty, but people like this make me want to make special exceptions. Like, only people who publicly call for death sentences for certain crimes, and then go on to commit those crimes. But if I went that far, then I might say that only people who support the death penalty shall be eligible for the death penalty. It’s a slippery slope, really. So, I just have to go back to opposing the death penalty, generally.
Fuck that, if you call for death, you must be willing to die, no slippery slope.
Well, you don’t have to give government the authority to murder to sentence this jackass to be incarcerated in general population, as another commenter pointed out.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A common misbelief about anarchism is that it opposes rules. It doesn’t oppose rules though, but rulers. Those who wish to make rules for others.
If this were an anarchist world, which it should be, it would be perfectly fine to create rules for yourself and consensually with others.
Therefore, if he, and the others supporting the death penalty for this crime, choose to apply that standard to themselves then they should face the death penalty. That doesn’t mean that punishment therefore applies to everybody else though.
Your logic is fine, no slippery slope.
On a less related note, here’s my favourite video debunking the efficacy of the death penalty: https://youtu.be/_DrsVhzbLzU
I though child sex was one of the boxes you had to tick in order to be a up-and-coming Republican 😅 and with Epstein’s timeshare shutdown, you have to go rogue to get your badge. … not serious btw, I’m sure the higher ups already have created a new little tiny sex vacation spot somewhere.
Of course it is. That’s how people will vote to confirm terrible people for important government positions with tears rolling down their cheeks. They know if they don’t all the evidence of only their crimes against children in the clubhouse will become front page news.
