Kyle Tasker was a Republican state representative in New Hampshire. He met a fourteen-year-old girl at a community breakfast and began sending her texts asking her to meet with him and promising her drugs and alcohol. She told her mother. The mother reported this to the police who took over the girl’s Facebook account and arranged to meet him at a beach where he was arrested.
He resigned from the legislature, but a bill he sponsored for body cameras was going to become law and they had to maneuver to remove his name from it.
He pleaded guilty to nine felonies: four counts of using a computer to lure a minor for sex and five counts of possession of a controlled drug with intent to distribute. He was sentenced to three to ten years in prison.
After two years in prison, while on work release, he sent a Facebook message to a friend of the girl. Prosecutors wanted his sentence extended but the judge just gave him a warning. This demonstrates that prison did nothing to deter him.
- Concord Monitor: Former NH lawmaker sentenced for 3-10 years for drugs and sex solicitation
- NH Criminal Offender Registry: Kyle Tasker
- Concord Monitor: Former State Rep. Kyle Tasker gets warning from judge, but no extra prison time
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