Story hour
Oops.
A Milwaukee County Children’s Court judge and former president and CEO of the Cream City Foundation, which runs the city’s drag queen story hour program, has been arrested on seven counts of child pornography.
Brett Blomme, 38, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly uploading 27 images and videos of children being sexually abused on the messaging app Kik.
Oh that kind of drag queen story program.
Not that millions of women pointed that out or anything.
Blomme was held overnight and released with a signature. He has been ordered to stay off social media and file-sharing services and is not allowed near any children except the two that he adopted with his husband.
Uh………about those two that he adopted…
Blomme is accused of uploading the images both from his home and from the judge’s chambers.
Oh, clever, do it from work, at your job as a judge. Brilliant.
The alleged pedophile judge was the president and CEO of the Cream City Foundation, which runs the Milwaukee Drag Queen Story Hour for local children. As of early Thursday morning, however, all articles and mentions of him had been scrubbed from their website. The links were still cached by Google’s search engine and his role remained detailed on his LinkedIn page.
Never you mind, Drag Queen Story Hour is in no way grooming, it’s good cheerful happy fun times.
Assistant Attorney General David Maas, who is prosecuting the case, has argued that Blomme should not have any unsupervised contact with children — including the two that he and his husband adopted.
Including and in fact especially, since they live with him and are thus completely vulnerable.
Updating to add: see Sackbut’s comment @ 9 for some corrections to this story – chiefly that Blomme wasn’t such a high-up at Cream City Foundation.
And yet cries of “where were all the women?” in the mainstream media are seconds away at most.
As though it’s women’s job to save us all from batshit insanity.
* I’m in serious danger of contracting sarcasm poisoning from responses to this story.
Did you actually link to…Gateway Pundit?! Now there’s something I never thought I’d see…
This particular story seems fine. Hopefully icky right-wing sites won’t be the only ones covering these stories, but I wouldn’t be surprised with the way things are going.
Well, here’s the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for more, but they left out the Drag Queen Story Hour bit.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2021/03/16/milwaukee-judge-brett-blomme-arrested-child-pornography-charges/4721766001/
The Post Millennial has a story about it.
https://thepostmillennial.com/childrens-court-judge-past-president-drag-queen-story-hour-foundation-arrested
Um, is “Cream City” some standard nomenclature for Milwaukee that this Australian is unfamiliar with?
I don’t think so, and it struck me as a bit…erm…suggestive, but I didn’t look for more information.
Milwaukee’s known for beer.
Then again Wisconsin is known for cheese, so maybe that’s the connection.
https://www.wuwm.com/post/how-milwaukee-got-nickname-cream-city
FWIW, Snopes says a number of aspects of this story are sufficiently garbled to declare the story false. The main item under dispute is that Blomme never had a leadership position in the organization promoting Story Hour, nor did the organization he headed for several years have any sort of control over it. Thus he wasn’t “leader” of Story Hour. The foundation he headed was a fiscal sponsor to the Milwaukee chapter of Story Hour.
To me that sounds like a relatively minor distinction, and I’d have said “misleading”, but whatever. His organization was important in getting Story Hour started in Milwaukee.
“Cream City” is a nickname for Milwaukee due to cream-colored bricks.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/drag-queen-story-hour/
… made from local materials.