Jan. 6 rioter gets life in prison for sexually abusing two 12-year-olds after Trump pardon
A convicted Jan. 6 rioter was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for sexually abusing two children after he was pardoned by President Donald Trump.
Andrew Paul Johnson, 45, was found guilty last month on five criminal charges, including molestation, lewd and lascivious exhibition and transmission of material harmful to a minor, and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) blamed the president for freeing the sex offender on his first day back in office, reported NPR.
"They think they're untouchable," Raskin said. Trump's pardons "definitely have made Americans less safe."
Johnson repeatedly abused the two middle-school aged children just months after his pardon, and he tried to keep the victims quiet by promising to share the millions of dollars in restitution money he expected the Trump administration would give him.
"He said not to tell anybody," one of the victims testified.
"We were scared," the other victim testified. "Like, we didn't realize that this stuff was not okay because we were 12 years old."