The mainstream media is usually crazy about firsts, like the first transgender member of Congress, but we're not seeing much in the news about New Hampshire State Rep. Stacie Laughton. Not only was Laughton the first openly transgender person to become a state legislator, but he's also the first transgender state legislator to be sentenced to 33 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of children.
BREAKING: New Hampshire’s first transgender elected Rep., Stacie Laughton (D), sentenced to 33 YEARS in prison for the s*xual exploitation of children. pic.twitter.com/OXxN4prrO5
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 19, 2026
🚨The first openly transgender person elected to a US state legislature has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for child sexual exploitation.
— REDUXX (@reduxx) June 19, 2026
Stacie Marie Laughton's defense had argued for a lower sentence on the basis of his possible "retardation."https://t.co/Ak4eMzwJAk
What? REDUXX reports:
Laughton was first charged in 2023 after the police department in Nashua, New Hampshire, received a report that he had sent child sexual abuse images to another individual. Disturbed, that individual brought the images to police, who confirmed that Laughton had sent four images depicting the genitals of extremely young children to this individual via text. NPD then interviewed Laughton, who admitted to receiving child sexual abuse images from his former partner, Lindsay Groves, who was an employee at the Creative Minds Early Learning Center in nearby Tyngsborough, Massachusetts.
Speaking with police, Groves admitted to taking the images, and stated that Laughton had asked her to do so after expressing a sexual interest in children.
According to court records, police obtained a search warrant for both of the suspects’ devices, and found they had exchanged over 10,000 messages that included explicit discussions of the sexual abuse of children.
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But what about the retardation defense?
Laughton’s defense includes an assessment by Dr. Joseph Plaud, a clinical forensic psychologist, who reportedly confirmed that he was developmentally disabled. References to a 1999 psychological report were also included, in which the assessing doctor had determined that Laughton’s intelligence quotient was trending downwards towards retardation.
REDUXX reports that Laughton was first elected in 2012, but bailed when a 2008 felony conviction for identity and credit card fraud and falsifying physical evidence came to light. After the sentence for that felony conviction, Laughton was allowed to run for office again in 2019. He was elected selectman in 2011, 2019, and 2021. He was also elected state representative in 2020. He's also an ordained minister.
Tough to think some people looked at that dude and said, yeah, I want him to represent my interests.
— Scott Taylor (@Scotttaylorva) June 20, 2026
How did a ‘retard’ get elected to the US state legislature. Forgetting about his trans nonsense, democracy is no longer functional if literal retarded candidates can be elected.
— James K (@Eachwayjasetoo) June 20, 2026
"I'm not a deviant! I'm retarded!" is a hell of legal strategy.
— Guy (@GuyIsReborn) June 20, 2026
Liberals electing a transgender pedophile retard to office should surprise absolutely no one.
— Blue State Rebel (@FarleyForQueen) June 19, 2026
This aged like milk https://t.co/Lc5hXWobev
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 19, 2026
He will be going to prison in a men’s prison facility. 🙌🏼
— Savannah Insights 🎙️ (@BasedSavannah) June 19, 2026
His former partner, and daycare worker Lindsay Groves who provided him with the CSAM photos has already been sentenced to 22 years in a federal prison and she’s serving time in a women’s facility. Evil 😈 pic.twitter.com/8pheedUhZY
Can we just start profiling anyone who looks like this? It’s always somebody who looks like this guy, 100% prediction rate.
— Appalachian Liberty (@Liberty_Xtreme) June 20, 2026
Who’d imagine that this dainty little cupcake would exploit a child. There must be some mistake! She looks so kind and harmless, despite having the neck of a buffalo and an advanced case of female-pattern baldness!
— Mister Knauf 👹🌎 (@daniel_knauf) June 19, 2026
The thing that “never happens” happened again.
— Natasha Carter (@NatashaCL7) June 19, 2026
Transgender former NH State Rep was just sentenced to 33 years in prison for child p**n and child exploitation.@ericswalwell campaigned with him.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 19, 2026
Eric Swalwell’s friend. pic.twitter.com/nvax1XS1MS
Was it Laughton's good looks that made the citizens of New Hampshire want to vote for him, even after the stint in prison?
You can see the "Clergy" badge in the photo that Libs of TikTok used. REDUXX claims that Laughton affiliated himself with Buddhism, Methodism, New Age, Oneness Pentecostalism, Pentecostalism, Protestantism, Rastafarianism, Spiritualism, Tibetan Buddhism, Unitarian Universalism, and the Universal Life Church, and that he delivered his first sermon on YouTube earlier this year.
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