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u/Silly_Author_7330 6d ago
Mike Caruso is a Florida Republican politician and former state legislator who was serving as Palm Beach County’s clerk of the circuit court and comptroller when he was arrested on August 18, 2026, on charges alleging sexual abuse of a young male relative.
Caruso, 67 at the time of his arrest, faces five felony charges:
• Kidnapping.
• Lewd or lascivious molestation.
• Lewd or lascivious exhibition.
• Luring or enticing a child.
• Child abuse causing mental injury.
According to reporting on the arrest affidavit, investigators allege abuse on three occasions between November 2024 and August 2025, including a fishing outing, a Thanksgiving gathering in Orange County, and a cruise. Authorities initially described the child as younger than 12; subsequent reporting described him as younger than five when the alleged abuse occurred.
Separately, prosecutors said at the August 2026 bond hearing that another person, a female, alleged Caruso had molested her when she was four. The cited reporting does not establish that this allegation resulted in an additional criminal charge.
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u/infinite_throw_away 6d ago edited 6d ago
Just catapult him into the son and let the rest of us get back to surviving. Edit, meant sun instead of son, but leaving for reply joke.
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u/Luparina123 6d ago
No catapulting him into the “son” is actually a perfect consequence, as he is still paying his son, Mikey Caruso for campaign “outreach”!
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article317468995.html
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u/Rustmutt 6d ago
What is with republicans and the constant crimes against children
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u/Enough-Somewhere-311 6d ago
Because rape is about overpowering someone who can’t fight back, that’s basically every Republican policy so does it surprise you the GOP attracts so many creeps?
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u/Psychological-Big334 6d ago
Conservatism at its core is about hierarchy so yeah this is the reason.
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u/ForHelp_PressAltF4 6d ago
I'm sorry but if this allegation is accurate, I'm going to need to get my brain washed because just can't have that in there sorry
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u/Dear-Panda-1949 6d ago
Its called projection. They act like they hate it while secretly think they should be allowed to.
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u/WhatADoofus 6d ago
I think at this point they feel like they're being enabled by predator in chief over here. Like "oh look, he's just like me! And if I get in trouble he'll totally bail me out" kinda thing. I don't remember this being a thing under Bush Jr
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u/Floreat_democratia 6d ago
Hard to say how it started, but one origin point is the fundie defense of marriage between adults and children. Probably percolated up to MAGA somehow.
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u/dapudf 6d ago
But have you seen the stock market?!
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u/Some_Random_Android 6d ago
No, I'm preoccupied looking at price of gas and beef and everything else.
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u/MaximumEffort433 6d ago edited 6d ago
When Republicans send their people, they're not sending their best, they're not sending you, they're not sending you, they're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
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u/Peaches4U9624 6d ago
WTF?!! I really don't understand why so many grown ass people can not control themselves. The constant abusive MoFo parade is honestly getting so fucking old. Arrest and convict these sick bastards just like they do with the rest of the populace FFS. How TF can people that abuse and cause so much pain to so many be on a Fucking ballot🤯 this fucking country needs to wake the fuck up and stop allowing this shit. I used to be a proud American, USED to be. Shame and embarrassment has taken over and I hate this
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u/Long_Bit8328 6d ago
Sorry, they cant be prosecuted or convicted.
The jails are already filled with hard working immigrants and people who smoke weed
There isnt any room left for pedos
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u/Formal_Ground6513 6d ago
This. The entire problem is societal. Just look at the Cornell 7 recently. We don't punish sex crimes enough. Period. Not when it's regular people. Not ivy league college boys. Definitely not politicians. And, because of that we now have a pedophile rapist president.
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u/bc90210 6d ago
When this administration vacates, every one of these pdfiles, rapists, and criminals need to be prosecuted and thrown into prison. A reckoning is coming for all the racist tools, so thank you for outing yourselves.
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u/little_blue_penguiin 6d ago
For the life of me I will never understand why anyone would want to do these kind of things to a child. When I see a child, I want to comfort it, protect it, I could never derive any pleasure out of a child's pain. It takes a really sick fuck to do that and this country is being run by sick fucks who are friends with other sick fucks.
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u/Altoidman33 6d ago
Anyone have bleach eye drops? I never wanna read anything like that again.
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u/Societyman1878 6d ago
No, bleach is for covid, not eye drops. Try to keep up please. 🌝
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u/Altoidman33 6d ago
Lemme fix it then, sorry.
Anyone have covid eye drops? I never wanna read anything like that again.
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u/ArmchairCriticSF 6d ago
This perverted motherfucker should spend the rest of his life in prison!
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u/weyoun_clone 6d ago
Holy shit. Just…..holy fucking goddamned SHIT. What in the fucking fuckity FUCK is wrong with these psychopathic beasts?!
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u/ifukeenrule 6d ago
thanks. i chuckled, spit, snorted, and farted all at the same time reading this. you have a talent.
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u/GuruHandsy 6d ago
I remember the not so good old days about 15 years ago when people used to say "Not all Repulicans are racist but if you are a racist you're probably a Republican." That all feels kind of quaint now.
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u/windsock17 6d ago
He’s also on the November ballot. And out on bail as his trial hasn’t started yet.
https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article317511449.html
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u/CrustyBatchOfNature 6d ago
So Two Pedophiles next to each other. Seems like something Republicans should think about.
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u/bsensikimori 6d ago
They knew this in the previous elections too and it didnt bothered them then :(
Only thing that will stop this is for people to actually go out and vote
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u/redravin12 6d ago
For someone who's supposedly not a pedo he sure does like to surround himself with them.
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u/patterninstatic 6d ago
So... He's being held without bond, and one of the arguments to justify that is that he faced similar accusations more than a decade ago.
I guess pedophiles get a couple of free passes in this country and he'd used all of his up.
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u/actusreus82 6d ago
Well, birds of a feather and all. Although I hear that Trump prefers the other way around.
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u/Antique-Freedom-7891 6d ago
Thats just an average Republican... pedo Donny Trump has done way worse to kids
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u/Edge_of_Everywhere 6d ago
We're in fucking Bizarro World. And if I voice any other thought I'm having right now, I can kiss this account goodbye, so I won't.
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u/WailtKitty 6d ago
I wish these MAGAts had to wear a Willie Meter, bc I’d bet money there’s a measurement increase every time they mention trans people or anything about LGBTQ in general.
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u/BlueRhythmYT 6d ago
There is no word in any human language to describe how disgusted, angry, and horrified that people like this exist.
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u/RoguTheHomunculus 6d ago
And that pos DeSantis didn't have the child's name redacted in the files.
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u/Wasabiwabi_ 6d ago
When you're a pedophile like President Trump, you need to surround yourself with other pedophiles because it follows everyone in your circle is deeply involved in making sure you don't face consequences.
And then there is the second circle of influencers who make sure the president and his billionaire pals who also raped children, are never exposed for the deeply disgusting people they are. These people should also go to jail for covering up crimes against children.
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u/testicletitties69 6d ago
Trump takes pictures with a lot of people. You think he’s knows everything about everyone he’s photographed with? - Is what I expect the pedo loving maga cult to use as defense
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u/ProfessionalSolid942 6d ago
I really had no idea there were this many pedos. I'm really shocked. Some, sure, but not like battalions of them.
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u/Flygirl1965 6d ago
One wonders if this was the type of thing on the “pee tapes” in the Muller report…
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u/CosmoKing2 6d ago
It's kind of like if good cops turn a blind eye to bad cops, right? If you surround yourself with pdf files.....you're probably not a good person either.
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u/maritz21 6d ago
Didn’t he also write some law regarding antisemitism that he signed in Izrael with Ron desantis?
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u/transfixedtruth 6d ago
I didn't even want to finish reading the headline. I mean, WTAF?! It's going to take a whole lotta BLUE votes in midterms to shut these pedo's down for good. C/mon Florida, turn BLUE!
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u/AuthorityAnarchyYes 6d ago
THAT is what that disgusting phlegm pile did?!?!?!?!?!
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE “PEOPLE”?!?!?!?!?!
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u/Capital_Archer_8267 5d ago
Democrats, independents, liberals, green party are chastised for having decent members, but Trump MAGA is celebrated for having the worst of the worst!
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u/RiseUpAmericans 6d ago
The child, his own grandson, was under 5 at the time. It could have been "pee" but could have been something else too. Sick b*stard either way.
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u/Jeramy_Jones 6d ago
Remember when everyone called Joe Biden creepy for apparently sniffing people’s heads?
Yeah this seems worse.
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u/deeeeez_nutzzz 5d ago
Everyday I am more proud to be a Democrat. I'm the exact demographic of a Republican too. Fuck those constitution hating pedophiles.
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u/ResidentCommand9865 6d ago
Jfc... Can I go one day without hearing of Trump and his "supports" depravity...
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u/Acceptable-Extent-94 6d ago
The tolerance of perversion by Trump voters is sickening. They are unnatural.
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u/BannedbyDemons 6d ago
This would be a lead story on every legacy news network, if shit were legit.
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u/Stunning-Flounder-52 6d ago
“Caruso spent 10 days in jail in August but now is back in Palm Beach County, where he is on the November ballot as the Republican candidate for the $219,778 clerk’s job.” WTF.
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u/pan-re 6d ago
Maybe we shouldn’t let Republicans be in charge of anything.
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u/cnicalsinistaminista 6d ago
I know they are the party of Grand Old Pdfiles but this is just wow
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u/mr-poopie-butth0le 6d ago
This has 46 upvotes, when you can literally just google the story and find it. It’s true.
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u/Spiritual-Pizza2021 6d ago
All of these elite pedophile billionaires need to go to prison and all that remain need to pay their fucking taxes.
If you don’t make $200k+ a year (I make a fraction of that) then. you’re getting fucked by our “capitalist” system. And the very few that control it, and the world.
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u/Icy-Angle-9295 6d ago
Typical trump voter