“A Trump supporter accused of storming the US Capitol and heckling police officers for ‘protecting pedophiles’ previously served jail time after being convicted in the statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl, according to court records reviewed by CNN and lawyers involved in the cases. Federal prosecutors say Sean McHugh of Auburn, California, fought with police as they fended off the massive mob of Trump supporters outside the Capitol on January 6. During the scuffle, McHugh was recorded by police body-worn cameras heckling the officers with a megaphone. According to prosecutors’ description of the footage, McHugh allegedly shouted, ‘You guys like protecting pedophiles?’ ‘you’re protecting communists,’ ‘I’d be shaking in your little shit boots too,’ and, ‘there is a Second Amendment behind us, what are you going to do then?'”

“His comments about ‘pedophiles’ are particularly striking, considering his criminal history. McHugh was convicted in 2010 on a state charge of unlawful sex with a minor, according to California court records reviewed by CNN and lawyers involved in McHugh’s cases. McHugh was sentenced to 240 days in jail – though he served less – and got four years of probation. There was DNA evidence that connected McHugh to the girl, former prosecutor Todd Kuhnen told CNN. The victim was 14 years old and McHugh was 23 when the crime occurred, Kuhnen said. The victim also alleged that she was intoxicated when the incident occurred. McHugh pleaded no contest to the underage sex charge. Kuhnen said he didn’t take the case to trial because he didn’t want to ‘run the victim through the ringer again,’ and said that the victim and her mother signed off to the plea agreement as part of California’s victims’ rights law” – CNN.