US EditionMan pardoned for Jan. 6 Capitol riot receives life sentence in Florida child molestation case
Andrew Paul Johnson was convicted of multiple child-sex crimes using online grooming and bribery, and sentenced to life in prison despite receiving a presidential pardon in January 2025.
- On Thursday, Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant from Brooksville, was sentenced to life after a jury found him guilty earlier this year of molestation and transmitting harmful material to a minor.
- Johnson met the boy's mother at a political rally in 2023 and later stayed in their home as a handyman, using gifts and promises of restitution to groom the boy and a 12-year-old girl.
- Investigators recovered explicit messages on Discord and a phone Johnson had given a victim, and both victims testified about repeated abuse, with one saying `He said not to tell anybody`.
- House Democrats introduced legislation to block federal payouts to former Jan. 6 defendants, while Congressman Jamie Raskin said the case shows pardons make Americans less safe and `They think they're untouchable`.
- The Justice Department paid nearly five million to Ashli Babbitt's family, fueling debate on taxpayer payouts as the political right portrays Jan. 6 defendants as 'victims.
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The Independent (US)Capitol rioter Trump pardoned handed life sentence for molesting children
One of his victims informed investigators that the abuse began around April 2024, several months before Johnson was sentenced for his Capitol riot conviction
Capitol Rioter Pardoned By Trump Jailed For Life Over Child Sex Abuse
A Florida handyman who was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for molesting two children had been convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was pardoned by President Donald Trump.
Pardoned Capitol Rioter Sentenced to Life in Prison
“Just months after President Trump’s mass pardons for Jan. 6 rioters freed him from prison, a Florida man repeatedly sexually abused two middle-school aged children,” NPR reports. “On Thursday, the man, Andrew Paul Johnson, was sentenced to life in prison, after a Florida jury found him guilty of five criminal charges, including molestation, lewd and lascivious exhibition and transmission of material harmful to a minor.”
U.S. Capitol rioter who was pardoned by Trump gets a life sentence for molesting 2 children in Florida
A Florida handyman who was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for molesting two children had been convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was pardoned by U.S. President Donald Trump.
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