WASHINGTON, D.C., February 6, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A former Republican staffer who spoke at the 2013 March for Life as a college student has been arrested and charged with distributing child pornography.
Ruben A. Verastigui, 27, had previously worked for the Senate Republican Conference as a digital strategist and until his arrest worked for a center-right energy group, Citizens For Responsible Energy Solutions. On February 5, 2021, D.C. police arrested him and charged him with distribution of child porn.
“Between March 2020 and February 2021, an investigation revealed the suspect distributed, received and possessed images of child pornography,” the Metropolitan Police Department said in a press release. Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Youth and Family Services Division had worked on the case with detectives from the Internet Crimes Against Children Unit, the Northern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, and Homeland Security Investigations, according to the press release.
The news of the arrest appears to have first been posted on Twitter by @AnOpenSecret and Jared Holt, a research fellow with the Atlantic Council, a left-wing group. A number of the alleged details from the investigation that were posted are too disturbing to publish on LifeSite.
The Daily Beast published a story noting Verastigui “also worked
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