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Matt Gaetz helped enact Florida legislation to toughen penalties for sex offenses against children.
He said in 2014 that sex offenders who prey on children were simply wired differently.
Gaetz is now the subject of a sex-trafficking investigation reportedly involving a 17-year-old.
In 2014, long before he became the subject of a federal sex-trafficking investigation, Matt Gaetz pushed Florida to enact what he called a scorched-earth policy toward sexual predators.
Gaetz, then 31 years old, served as the chairman of the Florida House of Representatives Criminal Justice Subcommittee. He cosponsored legislation that increased the mandatory prison time for convicted sexual offenders, calling it some of the most important work his subcommittee would do.
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The prospect of Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz being hoisted by his own “family values” petard is certainly enticing. And when that scandal comes complete with ABC News reporting that Gaetz was a member of a “group of young male lawmakers” who turned scoring sex with “interns, staffers or other female colleagues” into a game, and The New York Times is reporting that Gaetz continued soliciting women for paid sex well after he announced his engagement, all the elements are certainly there for for an atomic wedgie level of hoist.
However, the growing scandal around Gaetz is not something that took place in a vacuum. In addition to Gaetz and Florida Republican Joel Greenberg, there’s at least one other unnamed Republican official involved in this sex trafficking ring. More importantly, there are a lot more unnamed people involved like the women who Gaetz, Greenberg, and associates paid to travel across states for the purposes of having sex. At least one of th
Who is Rep. Matt Gaetz?
Rep. Matt Gaetz is a Republican congressman who has represented Florida’s 1st district since 2017.
Gaetz was previously the center of a bizarre story involving a teenaged Cuban immigrant:
Nestor Galban was 12 and had just arrived from Cuba, where he’d grown up and where his mother had recently died of breast cancer, Gaetz says. Then a state legislator, Gaetz was dating Nestor’s older sister.
And so Nestor moved in with them “a modern family,” Gaetz says now.
He says that, except for an interruption during Nestor’s junior year after Gaetz and Nestor’s sister broke up, Nestor has basically lived with him since moving from Cuba.
By Will Steakin, ABC News
(WASHINGTON) In 2017, both chambers of Congress passed an anti-human-trafficking bill that provided more funds to protect vulnerable women. The vote was nearly unanimous, minus one lone holdout: Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz.
Gaetz s vote at the time puzzled his new colleagues in Congress, and days later, he took to Facebook to defend it on a live stream from his parents living room. I assure you it s not because I don t think human trafficking is a problem, he declared. It absolutely is. But far too often the best of intentions can lead to mission creep at the federal level.
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