Columbia, SC (AP) – A Republican Member of the South Carolina House Who Prosecutors Say Used the Screen Name “Joebidennnnnnn69” Has Been arrest and Charged with 10 Counts of Dist Children.
RJ May was arrested at his home in Lexington County after a long investigation and was sentenced to Thursday by a federal judge to stay in prison until his trial.
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Each prosecution brings a sentence of five to 20 years in a sentence and prosecutors suggest that May can spend over a decade in prison if found guilty.
The files were uploaded and downloaded using May’s home Wi-Fi network and his mobile phone, prosecutors said. Some were hidden from the use of a private network, but others were directly related to its internet addresses.
May says someone else could use his wi-fi
In his decision, May’s lawyer suggested that someone could use the Wi-Fi password, which was shown on a board behind a photo of the photo she may have posted online. Attorney Dane Phillips also suggested that investigators did not associate any Kik message directly to May.
Prosecutors asked May 38 not to be given a guarantee because he lives at home with his wife and young children, and some of the files accused of sharing children of about the same age as his.
Can be investigated for paid sex in Colombia
Prosecutors said they were also investigating whether May had used a fake name to travel to Colombia three times after finding videos on his laptop from him, which was said to have had sex with three women. An agent from the Ministry of Interior Security indicates that women seem to have been a minor and paid. US agents failed to find women.
Prosecutors said May created an Facebook account with his fake name and his story on the Internet showed that he would switch between his real account and the fake and even search for his main opponent from the fake entrance.
Phillips, May’s lawyer, told the courtroom that no sexual images of young children or young children were found directly on his laptop or mobile phone directly.
After spending the night in prison. May appeared in a court on Thursday in short pants and a t -shirt with wrists and ankles in cuffs. After he was ordered to stay in prison, he seemed to blow a kiss on his wife, who was at the hearing.
May’s political rise in the State House
After the election of May in 2020, he helped to create a cause of freedom, a group of the most conservative members of the Chamber, who say that Republicans from the main house are not the true conservative heart of GOP. He also helped the Republican campaigns run against GOP House participants.
“We, as legislators, have an obligation to guarantee that our children have no harm,” May said in January 2024 on the floor of the house during a debate on transsexual care for minors.
His son fascinated the house in April 2021, when May led him to visit his third birthday and the boy practiced his parade wave around the House.
The Caucut of Freedom released a statement on Wednesday night, saying that they were kicking May from his group after his arrest.
May has spent a quiet session of the house since 2025.
Many of his eternal friends have distanced themselves since May, as rumors of the investigation are spread through the State House. During this session, he could largely be seen at his desk at the back of the 124-seat camera, mixing with very few colleagues.
The speaker of the house stopped May from his place after the charge.
May’s lawyer suggested that he could be frame and asked the internal security agent if he knew that May had many political enemies.
“There are a lot of people who also don’t like me, Mr. Phillips,” said Agent Briton Lorenzen.