Trans "Rep" Stacie Laughton: From Statehouse Shenanigans to Federal Slammer for exploitation of children

A thing of beauty is a joy forever

Oh, New Hampshire, you magnificent cradle of liberty—how do you keep churning out these gems? 

Stacie Laughton, a transgender female [making 'her' a him] who moonlighted as a state representative until the jig was up, and now he's trading his pantsuit for prison stripes after pleading guilty to the kind of child exploitation charges that make even the most jaded among us reach for the Tums.

Laughton, who resigned from his perch in the NH House back in 2022 after getting pinched for stalking in violation of a court order (because nothing says "progressive pioneer" like ignoring judicial paper trails), shuffled into a Boston federal court on Monday and copped to sexual exploitation of children. That's right: the self-identified 'girly girl' [see photo above] who was elected to protect the vulnerable was busy exploiting young children from afar.

Flash back to October, when Laughton's main squeeze, Lindsay Groves, spilled the beans on snapping explicit photos of toddlers and beaming them over to his beau, as reported by the Daily Mail. 

Groves, moonlighting at a Tyngsborough, Massachusetts daycare, turned "story hour" into a private screening of the macabre. The photos were nude shots of kids snoozing away, snapped between May 2022 and June 2023, featuring at least four sexually explicit money shots of tots aged three to five. And it wasn't just a rogue selfie; this came with "thousands of illicit discussions about the images." 

Laughton could be cooling his high heels for up to 30 years when the gavel drops, and Groves is right there in the dock with him, both slated for sentencing in February, with three decades of regret on the menu. As the affidavit so poetically put it, Groves "used natural bathroom breaks for the children," such as "routine diaper pull-up changes prior to nap time … to take multiple photos of the prepubescent children in a private bathroom and then sent the photos to the (former intimate partner) via text message." 

Ah, yes, the poetry of perversion, subsidized by taxpayer-funded daycares.

But wait, there's more! 

Laughton's rap sheet reads like a greatest-hits album of bad decisions, starting in 2002 with a domestic violence/criminal mischief collar, followed by a 2003 sexual assault beef against a woman (irony alert: the plot thickens). Then, in 2015, he dialed up a bomb threat to Southern New Hampshire Medical Center, because healthcare debates get real heated up north, and Democrats vote for this insanity. And just to keep the chaos fresh, 2021 brought an arrest for hijacking the state's 911 texting system. Guy's got more mugshots than Elon's got pennies.

Elected to represent Nashua in 2020 and reelected in 2022, Laughton bailed weeks after that second win over the stalking dust-up. One can only imagine the victory lap turning into a perp walk. In a sane world, this would be a one-and-done scandal, but in our glittering era of identity politics, it's just another Tuesday where the rainbow flag flies a little too close to the flames.

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