US EditionProsecutors want 20-year sentence for ex-South Carolina lawmaker for sharing child sex abuse videos
Prosecutors highlight May's hypocrisy after voting for child protection laws while distributing 220 abuse videos, urging a 20-year sentence to reflect harm to hundreds of victims.
- Wednesday, prosecutors asked a judge to sentence former South Carolina state representative RJ May to 20 years in a federal courtroom in Columbia, South Carolina.
- May, who resigned earlier this year, is accused of using the Kik social network under the screen name joebidennnn69 to exchange 220 files of children, prosecutors said.
- Prosecutors said May revictimized children with every shared file and highlighted his eight votes for laws protecting children, calling the crime especially hypocritical given his House floor comments.
- Under federal probation guidelines, May faces 17 to 22 years, but defense attorneys seek a shorter term; he must also pay $72,000 restitution, register as a sex offender for life, and lose voting and gun rights.
- May's defense submitted family letters saying he had an abusive childhood yet excelled academically, while May asked for mercy citing addiction and his father's offer of the Virginia farm.
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Prosecutors want 20-year sentence for ex-South Carolina lawmaker for sharing child sex abuse videos
Prosecutors are seeking a 20-year sentence for a former South Carolina legislator who pleaded guilty to distributing child sex abuse videos on social media.
Disgraced state Rep RJ May seeks reduced sentence so he can live on family farm
(WSPA) - Prosecutors requested last week a judge sentence former South Carolina lawmaker RJ May III to 20 years in prison for distributing hundreds of videos of children being sexually abused. On Monday, May's lawyers filed a motion asking for a reduced sentence, claiming it would allow May a chance to begin living and working [...]
MOMS FOR LIBERTY LEGISLATOR OF THE YEAR SEEKS LENIENT SENTENCE FOR DISTRIBUTING HUNDREDS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE VIDEOS
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