Child porn found on phone of Pennsylvania state Sen. Mike Folmer: prosecutor
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Child porn found on phone of Pennsylvania state Sen. Mike Folmer: prosecutor
Matt Allibone, York Daily Record, USA TODAY 1 hour 4 minutes ago YORK, Pa. – A Pennsylvania state senator has been charged with possession of child pornography , according to the state attorney general’s office.
Republican state Sen. Mike Folmer, 63, represents parts of Lebanon, Dauphin and York counties.
According to a release from Attorney General Josh Shapiro's office, Folmer was arrested Tuesday night after images of child pornography were found on his phone when police searched his home after obtaining a warrant.
The investigation began after a tip reported that an individual had uploaded an image of child pornography to the social networking website Tumblr.
Folmer was charged with sexual abuse of children, possession of child pornography and criminal use of a communication facility, Shapiro said in the release.
“I will continue to say it – no one is above the law, no matter what position of power they hold,” Shapiro said. “I will continue to work to protect children and hold those who abuse them accountable.”
Folmer has yet to release a statement on the charges.
Bail was set at $25,000, but it was not immediately clear if Folmer had posted it, the attorney general’s office said.
A native of Lebanon, Folmer was first elected to the Pennsylvania senate in 2006 and was re-elected to his fourth term in November.
Contributing: The Associated Press
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Republican state Sen. Mike Folmer, 63, represents parts of Lebanon, Dauphin and York counties.
According to a release from Attorney General Josh Shapiro's office, Folmer was arrested Tuesday night after images of child pornography were found on his phone when police searched his home after obtaining a warrant.
The investigation began after a tip reported that an individual had uploaded an image of child pornography to the social networking website Tumblr.
Folmer was charged with sexual abuse of children, possession of child pornography and criminal use of a communication facility, Shapiro said in the release.
I find it interesting that here the headline simply includes "Pennsylvania State Sen." and you have to get into the body of the article to find out it's a Republican whereas the other seed about a "dem donor" supposedly running a drug house leaves no doubt as to who the authors are really trying to smear.
I posted the same thing. I will delete mine.
Why are the majority of these sick fucks found in the republican ranks?
Sadly, all the parties have their fair share. Hopefully this ahole will do hard time.
Seems to be way more on the 'right'
Agreed and it seems there is enough to go around. I guess it depends on one's focus.......
Jim and Paula, please stop pointing out the fact that humans are prone to evil, regardless of party affiliation. You are ruining the narrative. Therefore, I ask that you refrain from any further posting of any suggestion that the actions of one republican are not representative of the entire class.
I'll assume you posted the same on the seed about the "dem donor" supposedly running a drug house in Hollywood, right?
You made sure to make this point after KD's comment over there of "What is with these sexual deviant Democrat donors", right?
Therefore, I ask that you refrain from any further posting of any suggestion that the actions of one republican are not representative of the entire class.
Did I make a sweeping generalization? I spoke of three specific donors.
I take pride in the fact that my comment so triggered a individual they have to speak about me in another thread.
… , displaying Olympic levels of hypocrisy, was so easy to spot.
Where is the hypocrisy, there was none, just because it hurt your feels doesn't make it hypocrisy.
Well then I await your righteously indignant comment about the elected Republican State Senator caught with child porn on his phone, unless you reserve that kind of anger for Democrats only. If you cry foul on Democrats but refuse to do the same to Republicans, that is the very definition of hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy: noun - the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.
Democrat donor does something bad...
"What is with these sexual deviant Democrat donors".
Republican does something even worse...
"... (crickets)…".
Who did Folmer's phone photo archives kill? See the difference?
Children posed for those photos....you don't think they were harmed?
Free rent. I wasn't even commenting on this article till you brought my name up.
Smells like mothballs in here.
You've seen them then.............
That makes absolutely no sense.
Hint: Child porn is illegal. Why? Because children can't consent to porn photos. Why do you think that is? Why do we protect children from porn?
Holy shit. Are you kidding me??? Are you totally shitting me??!? You call a person who voluntarily ingests drugs knowing how dangerous they are, buying that shit that they voluntarily stick in their fucking arms or up their nose or swallow by the fuckin' handful are more of a victim than children?? Oh. My. Fucking. Gawd.
I hate the exploitation of children as much as the next guy and don't condone it in any fashion. The point I was trying to make was that sick bastard in California drugged grown people and made them do his bidding to get his jollies and they died...............sorry you didn't get my point. I will try harder.
No. Did you read the story I was eluding to? FFS chill.
I noticed it too when I passed by comments that say drug users that kill themselves are more of a victim than innocent children that hopefully will not turn to suicide rather than deal with the shit that they'll have to go through for the rest of their lives. Holy shit. Drug users would get it from somewhere else other than from some shady democrat.
Are you shittin' me??? They weren't willing participants? So can you provide a link where they were tied down by that sick bastard and forced to ingest that poison?
Btw, great include of "grown" people.
Exploitation is exploitation no matter who. STILL don't condone that shit.
No, didn't see that one. Had I, I'd be inclined to say the same though. I don't assume all male democrats send dick pics like Anthony Wiener, nor would I assert his actions are representative of the party on the whole.
I didn't click on this story to defend a republican. I wanted to see how many years the pedophile faces.
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And yet here you are trying to deflect this thread about Republican state Sen. Mike Folmer's child porno charges onto a Democratic donor who is a drug dealer.
Intelligent Newstalkers can see right through your transparent partisan bullshit.
Riiiiiiggggghhhhhtttt
Keep digging Jim, keep digging
Just saying there are creeps on both sides of the aisle. Of course you wouldn't know it reading here.
Keep digging
Oh puh-leese. When I cited the list of rightie who are pervs, I said there was a democratic list as well. I called the drug dealer a shady democrat. Good grief.
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He used to be a Democrat. Maybe that's where he learned this behavior.
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Research is fundamental.
City council membership
"In 1986, Folmer was elected to Lebanon City Council as a Democrat. He tallied the highest plurality of votes for a Democrat in a municipal election at the time. "
Sure !
"According to a release from Attorney General Josh Shapiro's office, Folmer was arrested Tuesday night after images of child pornography were found on his phone when police searched his home after obtaining a warrant."
Works for me !
No shit the right is filthy. By the way, in the interest of fairness, the cite below lists the democratic people considered deviants as well. I understand that there have been right leaners who are totally, TOTALLY consumed by transsexuals. They think of transsexuals constantly, they make up transsexual stories, they have an 'all transsexuals all the time' type of mentality. It's just like guys who claim they hate "homos." I have NEVER EVER known a sexually secure man care one iota of a shit about gay men. Not one. It's those who scream they hate them that have self-loathing because they can't stop thinking about guy-on-guy sex. If you're obsessed with transsexuals, you're obsessed with transsexuals. Those people always have gay porn or trans porn in the trunk of their cars. The list of republican deviants is too long to print here, so I'll do some editing.
Cite
part ii:
part iii:
The list is too long to continue, but here's one of my favorites:
I see a specific one sided pattern in your List !
They're ALL MEN !
Yeah he was a fucking White-wing religious asshole.
He died in 2015.
Mules still regularly visit Horsely's grave when they need to poop.
I guess because everytime he asked his wife she said Neigh
LOL!
Outstanding comment!
I freely admit both sides must have their share of deviants but the republicans seem to really, really, really, really outnumber democrats.
How many of these Republican deviants have campaigned/touted family values and been caught with their pants down with children? Male prostitutes? Female prostitutes? Paid for their mistresses abortions? Having sex with animals?
Otis O'Neal HORSLEY had loving, romantic sex with a mule. Funny ... Horsley. Admittedly fucking a mule.
What personal problems is this scum bag working through that the remedy is child porn. I'm sure he's a "god fearing, church going, anti-abortion" typical republican hypocrite.
He is. He minored in Biblical Studies in college.
Ahhh ... republicans. Pillars of society.
Who is Dennis Hassert? You probably ought to check your meme source. Perhaps they are Russian bots ..........................
You've never made a typo?
Uhhhhh ... okay. I guess the misspelling of the meme totally confused you. You've heard of Google, right? You can actually, by some miracle, insert a misspelled name and Google finds the person despite the misspelling! Amazing, doncha think?? They even have pictures so you can compare it to the meme. Easy peasy. You gotta try it sometime. It's crazy how easy it is.
Here ya go, sport .
Actually the meme made a typo and that threw him into a state of flux. I can understand, sorta, why he'd be so confused. Well, okay, maybe not understand-understand, but I mean "understand." You know, wink-wink nudge-nudge.
Then you probably should have just kept your typing fingers away from your keyboard
Too easy.
I was going to say something else but stopped myself
You just don't like having your ass handed to you by intelligent beautiful bodacious strong women so you become grammar nazi
Sounds like you're the ones with their panties in a bunch Jim
Do you know any?
Do they HastaHurt ya so good ?
Yes cobalt and tg who have continually handed you your ass.
Again, keep digging
The wonderful world of "faux christian family values" hypocritical republicans
Oh, that's hilarious! Made me snort...
My favorite is that the 'christian values' peeps are standing behind a guy who wants to screw his daughter and has said so publicly on several occasions. Wait. My bad. He said he wanted to "date" her. I've actually had someone whine "he didn't say 'screw' ... he said he wanted to date her!!" Yeah. He wants to take her to an ice cream social.
The Traitor In Chief wants to screw his daughter. Embrace it, "christian evangelicals" ...
Did Donald Trump Say He’d Like to Date His Daughter?
"It's a sense of humor that people don't see from him all the time."
" Trump made the comment during an appearance on the daytime talk show The View while discussing the possibility of Ivanka’s posing for Playboy magazine: “It would be really disappointing — not really — but it would depend on what’s inside the magazine. I don’t think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice figure. I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”
That's fucking disgusting!
It's short; watch the whole thing.
By the way, when he was talking about Tiffany's "breasts", in the full clip, Tiffany was in a bassinet in front of the Liar In Chief and Marla.
He also said Howard Stern could call Ivanka "a piece of ass. "
Odd some people don't find anything odd with that sentence.
WTF?
So when Tiffany was a baby and he was talking about her legs and her future breasts he was being funny then too?
That scumbag pedophile has no sense of humor
I bet his little dick has a stiffie
Jeebus. He said "She's got Marla's legs and well, we don't know about this part yet."
And at the :20 mark, did you just pass over the laughter by everyone on the set including Ivanka? Talk about wadded.
Did you not get when they asked Ivanka what they had in common, she said golf.
Daddy dearest pedophile immediately said sex
It was sick that they laughed and said gross and normalized this abomination of a human being
WTF?
Why would White-wingers show up on this thread to use their typical deflections to try to protect someone who likes child pornography?
Oh, wait.... Mike Folmer is a Republican state Senator.
That explains it.
Sorry I asked.
The White-wingers even proudly support pedophiles: