HISTORIC: Nation's first transgender state rep pleads guilty to child sex crimes

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Harris Rigby

Nov 7, 2025

Remember this upstanding gentleman, Stacie Marie Laughton?

No one saw it coming, I tell ya. 👇

Yep. Guilty as charged.

A former transgender New Hampshire state legislator pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of children this week.

Stacie Laughton (biological male), a Democrat who was elected to the New Hampshire House three times and resigned twice over legal problems, is facing up to 30 years in prison in connection to child sex crimes.

Laughton's crime involved his "partner," who was a daycare worker. Laughton would ask his partner to take pornographic photos of kids she was keeping in daycare to send to him.

Sick, sick stuff.

'According to the charging documents, a preliminary forensic review of Groves' cellphone allegedly revealed over 10,000 text messages between Laughton and Groves that included discussion about, and transfer of, explicit photographs that Groves had taken of children while employed at Creative Minds daycare - including at least four sexually explicit images of children who appear to be approximately three to five years old, as well as explicit descriptions of sex with each other and others, including children,' the DOJ said.

Groves was charged with one count of sexual exploitation of children and one count of distribution of child pornography.

The sexual exploitation charge carries at least 15 years in prison, up to 30, and five years supervised release.

The thrice-elected Democrat is about to go away for a long, long time.


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