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Powerful former North Dakota lawmaker pleads guilty to traveling to Europe to pay for sex with minor

A powerful former North Dakota lawmaker pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to a charge that he traveled to Europe with the intent to pay for sex with a minor.

Ray Holmberg, 80, of Grand Forks, admitted in court that he had paid young male masseuses, with some of whom he had sexual contact, during multiple visits to the Czech Republic, though he said he did not know for certain how old they were.

Holmberg was indicted in October 2023 for travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual activity and receipt and attempted receipt of child sexual abuse material. The Republican served more than 45 years in the North Dakota Senate before resigning in 2022.

Burn_The_Right ,

Conservatives are a hive of child predators. No wonder they are so obsessed with children.

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drspod ,

male masseuses

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BigMacHole ,

This is PROOF that DRAG QUEENS are bad for our kids!

nkat2112 ,
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Republican, but you already knew that.

overload ,

Every single time! Statistically significant for sure.

Bakkoda ,

Conveniently left out of the headline

OlinOfTheHillPeople ,

So are all the people involved in the coverup. The deeper you dive into this story, the grosser it gets.

SeaJ ,

I didn’t really need to look it up but did in case the answer was surprising. It’s not surprising. He is a Republican.

FirstCircle ,
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North Dakotan (rural values!, family values!), and of course Republican, enjoys gay sex with children. This is what they (Republicans) mean when they talk about how much they love kids.

Varyk ,

The age of consent in the Czech Republic is 15 years old, so minors there are even younger than you might be thinking.

girlfreddy ,
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The amount of Republicans getting caught doing sick shit is astounding to me. Like is being a paedophile some kind of precursor to becoming a right-wing politician???

Varyk , (edited )

It’s difficult to find an explanation for the partisan support of objectively harmful conservative political movements like restricted health care(public/”free” healthcare is cheaper, saves time, is sustainable) unless(Occam) they care much more about themselves than others and they place their comfort and desires above the comfort of others.

That type of person, who will actively vote against helping others for no practical reason, is the type of person who would victimize a child for any selfish “reason” like their own sexual gratification.

If it benefits them, they don’t care what happens to their victims or anyone else.

That tendency fits perfectly into the conservative political mindset.

It’s the conservative mantra: “me first, and to hell with the rest of 'em!”

gramie ,

I think that you are reading too much into it. The reason they vote against the public good, like universal healthcare, is because they are paid lots of money to do so.

Varyk ,

after they become politicians, sure.

This was more about why so many people who become conservative politicians end up getting caught for victimizing others.

the victimizing type of person is naturally drawn toward a group of people that care about themselves or money more than the community or even other people.

If you want to be a politician to make things better for everyone, you join the progressives, but if you want to be a politician to make things better for yourself only, then the conservative party and its values is the obvious group.

Snapz ,

There’s only one thing the gop loves more than LOUD projection and that’s abusing kids. The party of the grand ol’ pedophiles

  • NOTE: I’m reaching the character limit on Reddit posts, so here’s a website with a list of about 1000 of these republican shit stains on humanity.
girlfreddy ,
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The last link takes me to the Daily Kos homepage, so here’s the link by itself. dailykos.com/…/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abuse….

Scroll down to the bottom and there are 31 pages, 25 names/sources per page.

oktoberpaard ,

In many countries the age of consent depends on the context. By the looks of it, the Czech Republic is one of those countries:

The age of sexual consent in the Czech Republic is 15.

Additionally, the section of the Czech penal code 40/2009 Sb. covering “crimes against family and children” contains § 202 which criminalizes a “seduction to sexual intercourse” of any persons under 18 years by any promise or provision of payment, benefit, privilege or profit, for sexual intercourse, masturbation, exposure or similar behavior.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe

LarmyOfLone ,

Yeah the law is more concerned with abuse of power dynamic so relations between <18 year olds and teachers, doctors or otherwise parental guardians or tutorship or use of money or other “seductions” are illegal.

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