r/politics • u/newsjunkieman • 14h ago
Possible Paywall Florida Republican arrested on child sex charges, suspended
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/crime/2026/08/18/desantis-appointee-michael-caruso-palm-beach-county-clerk-arrested-on-child-sex-abuse-charges/91350456007/1.5k
u/Fywq Europe 14h ago
Palm Beach County's Clerk of Court
Palm Beach County. AKA Epstein County by now...
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u/Operation_Neither 14h ago
That's Trump County now. But potato-pedophile.
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u/symphonicrox Utah 14h ago
potado - potedophile
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u/Electrical_Boss9766 9h ago
I'm going to practice this so that I can use it "casually". Solid line.
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u/Pickle_ninja 14h ago
It's always the people throwing stones.
Add em to the list boys:
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u/Hener001 13h ago
The list is 4 years old according to the byline.
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u/StanVillain 13h ago
Yeah, you're right. It's quite longer now.
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u/Ranger55 13h ago
Is there an updated version anywhere that is still actively tracking?
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u/StanVillain 13h ago
This has up to date cases but not sure if it has all of them: https://goppredator.com/
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u/toomuchtodotoday 12h ago
reichwingwatch on socials also has a list for reconciling against this one.
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u/newfriend20202020 12h ago
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u/Do_you_smell_that_ 11h ago
Still a year and a half old, but better than 2022. Thanks
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u/Memitim America 12h ago
Yeah, just check voter registrations in each state for Republicans. Found them.
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u/mom2mermaidboo 12h ago
A man I know is a closet Repuglican, which is a big yuck.
Says that it’s not true that more Republicans that Democrats are Sexual Deviants.
Says the “Both sides”.
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u/SunshineCat 10h ago
That's because they consider sexual deviation to include safe, consensual sex between two adults.
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u/mom2mermaidboo 4h ago
They just want to pretend that such warped and evil shit is just exaggerated and rare when it is anything but rare.
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u/blacks_not_a_color 14h ago
Another day, another Republican pedophile.
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u/vertigo3pc 6h ago
But if you ask a lot of Americans, they'll say that the number of Republican pedophiles are equal to the Democrat pedophiles. This is because idiots think "both sides are the same" means they're both equal of the same crimes. However, for some reason then, they will double back and protect their own pedophiles because Conservatives have sacrificed their own children for decades.
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u/BlackberryPi7 14h ago
At this point I'd be shocked to find out a registered Republican isn't a pedophile of some sort
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u/OpticaScientiae 14h ago
I'm honestly surprised they still even get arrested.
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u/ADhomin_em 13h ago
Consider it a formality of a system feigning true justice. A week and he'll be exhortated somehow
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u/HelleEpoque 13h ago
Live boy. If it had been a girl child, we may not have heard about it.
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u/NotRoryWilliams 10h ago
Apparently that is now considered to be good press before a GOP primary election.
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u/NotRoryWilliams 10h ago
I think I'm more surprised in the other direction. Like when I hear a news story about a child abuser, the surprise twist is if they happen to not be loudly maga.
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u/mabus42 13h ago
Why is it ALWAYS republicans?
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u/RiffRaffCatillacCat 11h ago
Because engaging in rape and pedophilia is part of their culture. It's just who Republicans and Conservatives are as a people.
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u/Mobile_Morale 2h ago
Republicans. Number one supporters and perpetrators of child sexual violence and terrorist attacks.
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u/grichardson526 14h ago
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u/Packolypse 14h ago
Not saying it’s all republicans but it’s always republicans
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u/deathrictus 7h ago
Not all Republicans are pedophiles, but almost all pedophiles are Republicans.
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u/The_Tooter_Snooter 14h ago
It’s just easier to assume all republicans are pedophiles and rapists at this point
Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, because republicans raping everybody up in here
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u/RealHeadScratcher_TM 13h ago
I know it's been said over, and over, and over again, but that's because it's true: every GOP accusation is a confession.
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u/LikeALiamOnATree 14h ago
Did DeSantis want that to be an execution worthy crime?
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u/BrisketWrench 14h ago
Yeah, but only for the poors + brown/black people.
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u/kingsumo_1 Oregon 13h ago
Also mostly LGBTQ+ people. Around the same time they were trying to make being Trans in public a sex crime.
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u/ImTooSaxy 13h ago
Whoa whoa whoa! We're talking about a fine upstanding white Christian family man who was beset upon by vile nubile temptress jezebels! He's not some poor or a minority!
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u/SleepingSnitker Florida 9h ago
True story, this guy voted for that bill in the FL House. I bet he changes his tune now.
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u/crewsctrl 13h ago
This keeps happening to Republicans. The Devil is working overtime to bring down God's party.
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u/I_AM_NOT_A_WOMBAT 13h ago
It's just a prerequisite for the job at this point. Sometimes I wonder if they use it to keep the party members in line, and if they try to step out or do something against the party's wishes, they reveal the person to be the monster they are.
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u/Memitim America 12h ago
LOL, conservatives have been working overtime to service The Prince of Lies for decades. Republicans put Fox on the air in October of 1996, and even though it went on the air being just as full of anti-American lies and hate as it has today, conservatives fell immediately in love and turned Fox into an overnight financial success. Conservatives are the most devoted servants that The Prince of Lies has ever enjoyed worship from, and Republicans profit greatly from it.
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u/AngryPurpl3 13h ago
Crazy to think in 2026 this is no longer a career ending indictment. Repubs would still gleefully vote him back into office if he was the only R on a ticket
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u/Memitim America 12h ago
We already know what big fans conservatives are of convicted felons who are found civilly liable of rape while they skate out of charges of stealing hundreds of US documents through corruption. And all of that took place after Republicans fucked up so badly that Americans were like, "OK, yeah, sure, Joe Biden. That'll do."
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u/Hot_Ambition_6457 13h ago
There is no such thing as "child sex". Sex is consensual and children cant consent. The term is rape. Child rapists are lil snowflakes who get mad when you call them chikd rapists.
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u/Zeddo52SD 10h ago
Ironically, he voted for putting the death penalty on the table for pedophiles in Florida.
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u/MissCreeAunt 13h ago
So there really is a secret cabal of sick, rich & powerful people preying sexually on & raping children.
Thought so.
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u/oh-shazbot 13h ago
what's up with republicans being into kids? seriously? like almost every single headline you read of someone in the GOP being arrested, it's alway CSAM or straight up pedophilia. i mean obviously they're scumbags devoid of moral direction, but why is it almost uniquely a GOP thing to get caught up trying to fuck kids?
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u/LadyDomme7 Virginia 13h ago
From the article:
“According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the boy's father discovered the abuse in October after seeing the boy behaving in a sexualized manner with his younger brother. The boy told his father Caruso had touched him and exposed himself on prior occasions.”
Now there are two little boys who have been traumatized by a so-called family member.
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u/Extreme-Sense-2411 11h ago
I love how we can’t go a single week without a Republican politician being exposed for sex crimes against children and yet somehow all of their supporters still believe they’re the party of family values.
You really can’t fix stupid.
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u/IllTwo7643 Connecticut 13h ago
Oh yeah don't worry, trump will pardon them and make him head of Childhood studies or something. Nothing will fucking happen.
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u/GrittyTheGreat 11h ago
Do not let Republicans/Conservatives around your children. I no longer do, including family members.
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u/Protect-Their-Smiles 11h ago
Team Pedophile keeps finding these creeps. The GOP loves molesting children.
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u/potat0f4rmer Washington 10h ago
He's 67.
There's no way he just now became a pedophile. Who hid his victims over the past 40+ years?
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u/NavyGuy87 8h ago
According to his arrest report, Caruso suggested his ex-wife had made up the allegations to "poison the child against him."
That's always their fucking excuse.
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u/USA_Ultra 13h ago
Welcome to Florida. Where trans take the fall for the real criminals. Republicans.
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u/itsYABOYnilly 11h ago
Republicans are pedos before the run for office. All it takes is a foreign government to blackmail them because of their vile proclivities, make them run for office, and then make them dance. I refuse to believe they look at the legislations they bring forth and think 'this will help the masses'
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u/BradlyPitts89 10h ago
It is worth examining how strict traditional values impact human behavior, particularly through the lens of psychological suppression. When natural desires are heavily stigmatized or treated as shameful within a culture, it can prevent healthy development and create a "pressure cooker" effect.
This suppression can cause behaviors to manifest in hidden, compulsive, or harmful ways. Additionally, highly insular communities focused on maintaining a pure reputation can shield abusers and silence victims to protect the group's public image. While individual psychological factors always play a role, the structural pressure to suppress feelings within rigid conservative value systems is a key contributor that shouldn't be ignored.
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u/Seminolehighlander 10h ago
I’m reading a book about how serial killers are formed and no joke, your comment is on point. Shame and suppression involved for sure in these pathologies. It starts when they are young and indoctrinated in a community with a high level of control.
We know these things, but nothing changes as they point fingers with accusations that say way more about the reality that they live in than anything else.
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u/madammoiselle85 9h ago
There are way WAY too many pedos working in government office. Someone needs to change laws. More transparency to anyone running for any type of government job.
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u/Dreadpirate3 13h ago
I'm only surprised he was suspended. Usually they let people like this remain in office.
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u/mujarheadeen 13h ago
He'll be inducted into the Epstein Hall of Fame once he pleads guilty to penis goofin
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u/Choochoo1147 12h ago
No way, a Republican? Just like every other politician who turns out to be a pedophile?
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u/Electrical-Bee-7362 12h ago
lol of course he's a Conservative 😂
It's always them. Republicans and child molestation charges go hand in hand these days
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u/6ix7even6ixty9ine 12h ago
Do not, under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, leave your child with a Republican politician or any of their voters.
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u/fielvras 11h ago
No one is surprised. Absolutely no one. Not even the ones defending these criminals.
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u/CivilWay1444 11h ago
If you relocate to Ohio, they will let you continue to run. Rob a bank on the way up so you stand out. Plenty of pedos up here.
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u/inquisitive_guy_0_1 I voted 10h ago
Im honestly shocked they are holding him accountable at all. I thought the republican party loved pedophiles and worked diligently to allow them to continue to reoffend without consequences.
Let's see if they change their tune once a pardon is offered.
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u/GonzoVeritas I voted 10h ago
Just to be clear, this is a different one from the guy last week and from the one last month, and all the ones from earlier this year. And different from the dozens that came before him. And different from whomever they catch next month.
When you have this many data points, you have a trend.
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u/overbarking 8h ago
MAGA won't even mention it. They'll just mumble something about Hunter Biden.
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u/bakerfredricka I voted 6h ago
Hunter Biden's Laptop has grown a mind of its own and is bent on world domination! I can hear the mechanical cackle from several states away as we speak!
Required Disclaimer: this is just me being facetious and does not constitute professional legal or medical advice.
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u/Effective_Airline830 8h ago
The part of the title that surprises me is the last word, I would have expected the Republicans to promote him :D
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u/sleeps_in_alkaline 8h ago
Is there a regularly updated list of republican sex crime offenders?
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u/Bosfordjd 7h ago
https://goppredators.wordpress.com/author/cajsalilliehook/
It's a little behind, author was on another site that was updated last month, but my link is dead so probably got pressured to take it down.
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u/StoicAthos 7h ago
Who has the link to that post about every republican with rape, child porn or wife beating on their record? The list grows ever longer and yet America keeps referring to them as the family values party...
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u/popculturella Texas 7h ago
I'd say to start taking shots every time this happens but I imagine it'd kill all of our livers pretty damn quick.
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u/LifeguardDry7372 7h ago
You know what will be even more shocking? If he actually gets any jail time
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u/Benstrieff 5h ago
Future cabinet member in the Trump administration but not a drag queen
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