Voted For Taco Trump to Fight Child Pornography, Arrested for Trafficking Child Pornography
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| Scott Soucek | Door County Sheriff's Department |
A MAGA supporter from Wisconsin who claimed that he voted Republican in the 2024 election to fight child sex trafficking has been arrested and is facing 10 counts of possession of child pornography.
“I’m voting to fight against human/child trafficking,” Scott Soucek, 56, of Sturgeon Bay, posted to Facebook a month before the 2024 elections as part of a long list of reasons he was voting Republican. He added that he was voting “for my children and my grandchildren.”
Now, authorities say that someone at an IP address assigned to Soucek downloaded child sex abuse images and videos this past March. The images show “young children, preteens, adults” in sexual situations, as well as animals. The 12-page criminal complaint, according to The Daily Beast, contains “horrifying descriptions of the explicit images.”
This isn’t the first time Soucek has been investigated for possession of child sex abuse materials. In 2009, he was interviewed by investigators from Door County Internet Crimes Against Children for allegedly uploading such images, but the case was never referred to prosecutors.
Investigators analyzed his laptop at the time, but they didn’t find child sex abuse images on his computer. Instead, they found evidence that such images were on the computer in an index file associated with the peer-to-peer file sharing program Limewire and noted that “Soucek himself admitted to downloading such material,” the 2025 criminal complaint says. The complaint says it’s “unclear” why he wasn’t prosecuted at the time, and Sturgeon Bay Police Chief Clint Henry says that the investigator in that case, as well as the then-district attorney, have since retired.
“I don’t know where that communication fell through the gap, but obviously, if it looked like there was some evidence of a download, but we could not recover images, so I don’t know if that was the hangup?” Henry said. “Keep in mind, back in 2009, the technology is not what we have today.”
Soucek isn’t just a MAGA supporter; he’s the husband of a local Republican party official, Stephanie Soucek, chair of the Door County Republican Party and a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 2024. She appeared on a “Real America’s Voice” broadcast with FBI Director Kash Patel during the 2024 election cycle, where she talked about how Republicans could win that state.
Now she says she’s divorcing her husband.
“At this time, my main concern is for my son, and I am asking for privacy at this incredibly difficult time,”
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