FYI - A lot of the discussion here about the headline is now irrelevant that the source saw the light and corrected it:

"GOP lawmaker arrested after allegedly sexually abusing a middle schooler in a classroom"

OP - If you can update your headline to match, that would be great!

And, yes "having sex" in this context, is rape apology.

“Having sex”? There’s no “having ses” with a middle schooler. Its rape. He allegedly raped a child in a classroom.

Why do reporters nearly always defend these men with their word choices?

I just sent this to their contact us page.

This article https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/gop-lawmaker-arrested-after-allegedly-having-with-middle-schooler-in-a-classroom/ Titled as "allegedly having sex with middle schooler" is trash rape culture wording. You cannot "have sex" with a child. That is rape. Period, Your readers expect better than to white wash crimes against children like this. Statutory rape is rape. Sex with a child is rape. There is no consent, and thus, no obligation for you to sugar coat article wording like this. Please do better.

raping* you cannot have consensual sex with a 13yo.

"having sex with"

Nope, he raped a child.

Oh would you look at that? Once again it's not a trans person, gay person or a drag queen.

Republican Party chair Elgine McArdle said in a statement that Pritt had realized that the [Republicans more aligned with his personal interests]

Still not a trans person

Why is every conservative a pedophile?

I remember the conservative men I knew in childhood, and they were all woke by modern standards. Some beat their wives bloody, one spent a friend's college fund on sex workers (jokes on him; last I heard she was the best in the business and the rest of us got student debt), several were known rapists, my aunts talked about office parties being 'dangerous', and marital rape was just kind of an assumption.

But so few of them were pedophiles. Like I completely avoided being raped as a child. What happened? Was I just an unfuckable kid? Were all my friends whose families weren't religious just unfuckable kids?

"Democratic Party of today is not the Democratic Party that our parents grew up with.”

Joins the Republican party and rapes kids.

They forget the part where you need to be filthy rich to get away with this.

PEDO PARTY

If Dems were good at messaging, which they aren't, they'd blast this everywhere imaginable to make the name really stick.

If Republicans can make the public believe Haitian immigrants were cooking and eating people's pets then Dems can make people believe something that's pretty obvious at this point.

“While every person is entitled to the presumption of innocence and due process under the law, charges involving the exploitation and abuse of children strike at the core of the public trust,” Holstein said. “The people of his district deserve representation that is beyond reproach, and these allegations make it impossible for him to effectively serve.”

Yes, he should resign from office for the good of the party. It's very hard to bury this kind of thing while the rapist is still in office.

Also, yet another one for the pile:

Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers Pt. 61 - 1500 and counting.

There are many times I wish people would resist arrest, this is one of those times

That’s called rape and pedophilia. Coward ass journalists today.

Pedocon theory is a theory like gravity at this point.

DEMONRATS are just ANGRY he's not One of THEM now! FREE PRITT! He did NOTHING wrong!

-Republicans!

5’3” damn little rascals

Man, thats why you gotta watch these kids when they're on games like Roblox. Pedos are always lurking.

“Pritt had realized that the "Democratic Party of today is not the Democratic Party that our parents grew up with."

Not the glaze the Democrats, but I’m assuming this guy is Gen X or elder Millennial. All the Dems have done since the 80s/90s have done is move left on social services/regulation (slowly) and become more inclusive.

Today’s Dems are objectively better than the era his parents grew up with.