"A Florida handyman who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been convicted of multiple state charges of child molestation and exposing himself to children, prosecutors told NPR. Andrew Paul Johnson, the pardoned rioter, attempted to bribe one victim with money he claimed he would receive as part of restitution for Jan. 6 defendants, police reported."
"On Tuesday, a jury in Hernando County, Fla., found Andrew Paul Johnson guilty of five charges, including molesting a child under 12 and another under 16, as well as lewd and lascivious exhibition. Johnson was acquitted of one charge of sending sexual material to a child. William Forgie, the chief assistant state attorney for the fifth judicial circuit in Florida, told NPR in an email that Johnson "faces up to life in prison" when he is sentenced in March."
"A police report from the Hernando County Sheriff's Office filed as part of Johnson's Florida case describes a pattern of abuse including both physical sexual abuse and exposing his genitalia to children that took place "over a many-month span." One of Johnson's victims was 11 years old at the time of the abuse."
Andrew Paul Johnson, a Florida handyman pardoned by President Trump for entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted in Hernando County, Fla., on five charges, including molesting a child under 12, molesting another under 16, and lewd and lascivious exhibition. A jury acquitted him of one charge of sending sexual material to a child. A police report describes a pattern of physical sexual abuse and exposing genitalia to children over a many-month span, including a victim who was 11 years old. Johnson attempted to bribe a victim with money he claimed he would receive as restitution. He faces up to life in prison.
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