Andrew Paul Johnson was found guilty of five counts including molesting a child under 12 and another under 16

Andrew Paul Johnson was found guilty of five counts including molesting a child under 12 and another under 16

A man who took part in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol and later pardoned by Donald Trump was found guilty on Tuesday of multiple child sexual abuse charges in Florida, officials said.

Andrew Paul Johnson was arrested in Tennessee this August and extradited to Florida. He pleaded not guilty.

Johnson was found guilty of five counts this week, on charges such as molesting a child under 12 and another under 16, and lewd and lascivious exhibition, NPR first reported. A jury found him not guilty of one count of transmission of material harmful to a minor by electronic device or equipment.

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    A key detail:

    Johnson said “he was pardoned for storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and he was being awarded $10,000,000 as a result of being a ‘jan 6er’” and would put the boy “in his will to take any money he had left over”.

    He tried to get the kid(s) to keep quiet about his molesting them by telling them that he was going to get a payout for being a Jan 6 insurrectionist, and that he was going to share his multi-million dollar payout with them.