A Texas man who received a pardon from Donald Trump for his violent role in the January 6, Capitol riot has managed to avoid prison for child sex offences, after a judge credited him with the time he served for the riot before the pardon. 37-year-old Andrew Taake pleaded guilty to soliciting what he believed was a 15-year-old girl for sex. The “girl” was actually an undercover police officer on a dating website. Despite the seriousness of the charge, Taake avoided a prison sentence because he had accumulated more than three and a half years of detention time from his earlier federal case. That case involved him attacking officers with bear spray and a metal whip during the Capitol riot. He was convicted for those actions, but his sentence was later wiped out when Trump issued a blanket

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