{"id":148357,"date":"2025-06-25T01:35:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=148357"},"modified":"2025-06-25T01:35:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:35:04","slug":"republican-in-south-carolina-arrested-over-distribution-of-child-sexual-abuse-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=148357","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Republican in South Carolina arrested over distribution of child sexual abuse material&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jun\/13\/rj-may-south-carolina-child-sexual-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a>: &#8220;A Republican member of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/south-carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Carolina<\/a>\u2019s state house who prosecutors say used the screen name \u201cjoebidennnn69\u201d has been arrested and charged with 10 counts of distributing sexual abuse material involving children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">RJ May was arrested at his Lexington county home after a lengthy investigation and was ordered on Thursday by a federal judge to remain jailed until his trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The three-term Republican is accused of using \u201cjoebidennnn69\u201d to exchange 220 files of toddlers and young children involved in sex acts on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/feb\/16\/what-is-kik-app-online-anonymous-tech-nicole-madison-lovell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kik<\/a>\u00a0social media network for about five days in spring 2024, according to court documents that graphically detailed the videos.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian: &#8220;A Republican member of&nbsp;South Carolina\u2019s state house who prosecutors say used the screen name \u201cjoebidennnn69\u201d has been arrested and charged with 10 counts of distributing sexual abuse material involving children. RJ May was arrested at his Lexington county home after a lengthy investigation and was ordered on Thursday by a federal judge to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148358,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148357\/revisions\/148358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}