A high school therapist from Cleveland, Ohio who quit her job to become a global fighter against pedophilia was arrested by the FBI this morning after being photographed inside the Senate chambers during last week’s deadly insurrection.
Christine Priola is, er, was an occupational therapist for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District prior to last week’s breach of the U.S. Capitol building. Now, she’s facing federal charges for her alleged role in the failed coup.
According to documents filed in United States District Court, the 49-year-old is charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and unlawful activities on Capitol grounds.
FBI agents showed up at Priola’s house earlier today to take her into custody. Days earlier, she had submitted a letter of resignation to her employer, saying she was changing career paths to focus on exposing human trafficking and pedophilia around the globe.
Also, she didn’t want to take the COVID-19 vaccine in order to return to in-person school.
The letter came hours after Priola was doxed on social media for allegedly storming the U.S. Capitol and terrorizing lawmakers in an attempt to overturn the presidential election and overthrow the government.
The FBI was able to determine she was at the insurrection through widely shared photographs, video footage, and by tracing her electronic devices.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District said, “While CMSD deeply believes in the right of any individual to peacefully protest, as many did on the Capitol plaza on Wednesday afternoon, the District deeply condemns the actions of those involved in the riots inside the Capitol and on the Capitol grounds.”
“The right of peaceful protest, as protected by the first amendment, is a foundation of our democracy. The forcible takeover and willful destruction of our government is not.”
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Mack
She’s probably looking for that pedophile ring that Hillary is running in the basement of that Pizza parlor that has no basement.
Openminded
If the pizza parlor has no basement, it must be on shaky ground. Hence the name “Shaky’s Pizza”.
You gotta be at least 55 y/o to appreciate this lame joke.
Cam
Just like the people who are rabidly anti-LGBTQ are usually self hating closet cases. All of these QAnon nuts who claim fighting peodophila is their cause are probably pedophiles.
Remember, one of the biggest QAnon nuts in Congress is Lauren Boebert, whose husband was arrested for exposing himself to underaged kids.
Mister P
She needs deprogrammed as if she were pulled out of a cult.
KerryB
With a 9mm to the temple…
JustLarry
I can’t believe she was teaching our children! Imagine the damage she has caused, I sincerely hope all of those kids get therapy immediately.
Essie
She wasn’t a teacher, she was an occupational therapist for the school district.
JustLarry
Well that’s even worse then. She could’ve been talking about that man to the kids in her office. Children are very susseptable.
Cam
There was another teacher in Florida that bragged on some online podcast that she was indoctrinating her kids to be white supremacists. Luckily the podcast got reported and she was let go!
dhmonarch89
what is it about all these repubs thinking there’s some giant pedophile ring in the government? If one exists- it’s the Epstein one with Trump, Guiliani and Derhsowitz in it.
Kangol2
Psychologists and FBI investigators might want to take a closer look at all of these pedophilia-obsessed Q-razy Don the Con supporters.
KiwiJello
“The right of peaceful protest”…
Murdering cops is not peaceful. Rot in jail.
blackhook
How do these dumber-than-dirt Trumpanzees get hired at a school system? Could it be school systems are infected with dimwitted, hateful, bigoted, racist Trumpanzees? Sad!
Tombear
I’m serious, how can people buy in to all of these conspiracy theorys that our out there? Aren’t people born with common sense anymore? How many times must you count the votes to receive an accurate report? This woman is dangerous and should never have contact with children.
radiooutmike
It’s not about “common sense”.
Plenty of uneducated people have common sense. Even educated people may have it.
What’s missing are thinking skills; like critical thinking and understanding abstract concepts.
Brickyard
Sounds like the students are better off with that woman gone.
missvamp
Quit before she was fired you mean. Just another loser!
seadrian
The MAGAts always conveniently forget that Trump had more than a few convicted pedophiles acting as campaign chairs on his first campaign. They also ignore his close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and the fact that Trump is still close with Dershowitz who is responsible for keeping Epstein out of prison. None of them made a peep when Trump put Alex Acosta in as Sec.of Labor, either. He reduced charges on Epstein so Dershowitz could keep the serial pedophile out of prison.
Gadfeal
How can one make money being an opponent to an immaterial entity? Is there a country or organization called “Pedophilia”?
Why not have a career as an opponent of “Sexism”, “Irrationality”, “Murder”?
Tombear
Having had an extremely successful 26 year military career I think all of these insurrectionists should receive the death penalty. Because you don’t like the outcome of a fair election your big orange turd told you to riot. You insurrectionists are all useful idiots whose lives will be s##t when this is over.
ScottOnEarth
How the hell do such remarkably stupid, gullible and utterly ludicrous people get by in life? Where did this strain of American idiocy come from?