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.
Me thinks the righty doth protest too much.
Projection is assumed these days.
I suppose he is one small step up from the pedophiles that work to change the laws so that pedophilia is legal in some states…
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.
Hang him
holy shit…
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
I was with you until that last sentence.
Never mind. These political labels are too small for me.
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.
Thanks! Also, gross!
Uno card reverse
It’s almost as if wishing death on people is some sort of red flag…
Nah fam. I’m down with legit pedos getting a full reckoning. Its just wishful thinking that this slug will see any justice.
I notice he still isn’t a trans person or a drag queen.
Does anyone really think any Republican will face justice?
Only in Heaven. And even then, everything I’ve read about the guy upstairs suggests he’s fine with this shit.
I’m against the death penalty except for people who advocate it’s use in punishing crimes they are guilty of.
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.
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.
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’d love to see data on all the child sex offenders who’ve been found guilty over the last 50 years and learn whether they’re politically liberal or conservative and what types of jobs they’ve held. I have a hypothesis and I want to see if the data supports or refutes it.
There’s a pretty famous list that would get republished every time one of these stories hit the news. IIRC, it was Republican politicians convicted of child abuse crimes. But I can’t seem to find it anywhere right now.
There’s a similar list of Democrats. It’s about half the size of the other one.
I’ll bet I can find more right-wingers/clergy arrested for molestation of children in the last week than I could find drag queens in the history of existence
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
If we all work together and put our moves too it, we can prove to Michael that dreams CAN come true!
the irony isn’t lost
I think any good prosecutor would know to use his official statements of record at sentencing.
Welp, better dust off the Killamajig™.
