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.
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.
Not only a pedophile but also a sexist. But somehow that makes it better in Republican eyes.
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.
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.
I notice he still isn’t a trans person or a drag queen.
leapoard voted for eating everyone’s face suprised when face is next to be eaten
Color me surprised /s
It’s always the ones who you suspect.
and not the ones they tell you to fear
I’m against the death penalty except for people who advocate it’s use in punishing crimes they are guilty of.
He called for death penalty for sexual abuse of children under 12. Weird that he picked that age, specifically…
Suicide the long game?
The rare case of a leopard eating its own face.
Hoisted by his own petard.
Death
But only for him.
Wouldnt that be quite counterproductive, if he was framed?
This showcases dangers of capital punishment in case of false accusations and the pedos got rid of backer.Don’t take random comments on the internet so seriously. I certainly don’t when I make them.
Is Demented Don able pardon him?
Nope. I disagree.
Life in gen pop prison.
For however long gen pop decides “life” is. Could be days, could be a torturous number of years. Either way, it should be fucking awful.
It’s what he would have wanted…
Always the ones you most expect.
I am against the death penalty, but people like this make me want to make special exceptions. Like, only people who publicly call for death sentences for certain crimes, and then go on to commit those crimes. But if I went that far, then I might say that only people who support the death penalty shall be eligible for the death penalty. It’s a slippery slope, really. So, I just have to go back to opposing the death penalty, generally.
A common misbelief about anarchism is that it opposes rules. It doesn’t oppose rules though, but rulers. Those who wish to make rules for others.
If this were an anarchist world, which it should be, it would be perfectly fine to create rules for yourself and consensually with others.
Therefore, if he, and the others supporting the death penalty for this crime, choose to apply that standard to themselves then they should face the death penalty. That doesn’t mean that punishment therefore applies to everybody else though.
Your logic is fine, no slippery slope.
On a less related note, here’s my favourite video debunking the efficacy of the death penalty: https://youtu.be/_DrsVhzbLzU
Fuck that, if you call for death, you must be willing to die, no slippery slope.
Well, you don’t have to give government the authority to murder to sentence this jackass to be incarcerated in general population, as another commenter pointed out.
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