Source: Women are Human
US — Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A recently elected judge best known for his role as president and CEO of Cream City Foundation, a fiscal sponsor of the Milwaukee chapter of Drag Queen Story Hour, was arrested after investigators connected him to graphic videos depicting sexual abuse of children.
Brett Blomme, who assumed the position of Milwaukee County Children’s Court judge in August 2020, was charged Wednesday, March 17 with seven counts of possessing child pornography.
According to court documents, Mr Blomme uploaded pictures and videos of children to the Kik messenger app on 27 separate occasions under username DomMasterBB. The uploads were “explicit” and depicted children who were “prepubescent” and even “toddlers.” They were allegedly sent between October and November 2020 to individuals and in a group message.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The DOJ launched an investigation into Mr Blomme, obtaining search warrants for the judge’s chambers, two homes and vehicles.
The investigation tied two IPs used to upload the sex abuse images to a Milwaukee County government building.
The investigation furthered determined that the DomMasterBB Kik account was connected to Mr Blomme’s verified email, [email protected]
The primary residence of Mr Blomme, who is originally of Memphis, Missouri, is in Cottage Grove, Dane County with his husband and their two adopted children.
The state Supreme Court has suspended Mr Blomme from his judicial duties without pay.
The 38-year-old was released on bail. He is prohibited from using social media, using internet file-sharing having unsupervised contact with minor children other than his own.
The Cream City Foundation, of which Mr Blomme previously served as President and CEO, awarded a grant to fund “trans cultural competency training” to “enable and empower CARS [Milwaukee County Community Access to Recovery Services] providers to feel confident in their ability to reach out to and serve trans and non-binary individuals.”
A page now removed from the Cream City Foundation website says “DQSH [Drag Queen Story Hour] captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.” The organization called DQSH the “point of first contact for families seeking LGBTQ+ information” and provided a method for website visitors to sign up to sponsor the event.
The Drag Queen Story Hour, Drag Queen Storytime and Drag Story Time events have come under fire around the globe in recent months.
In mid 2019, the group Mass Resistance discovered that Albert Garza, a registered sex offender who served five months’ probation for the 2009 sexual assault on an 8-year-old child, was reading to children for “Drag Queen Storytime” at the Houston Public Library under the name Tatiana Mala Niña. Mass Resistance said the City of Houston had ignored months of requests for information about the drag queens before the group launched its own investigation. The group filed a lawsuit against the mayor and the Houston Public Library Executive Director.
That summer, Åsa Kachan, chief librarian of Halifax Public Libraries in Nova Scotia, Canada, admitted that the libraries do not “undertake criminal records checks for (guest speakers, performers, and the community members who participate in the programs).” The admission came in response to a local who emailed Halifax Public Libraries to ask whether drag queens were required to undergo criminal background or other vulnerable records checks “to prevent predators from accessing children in their spaces.” Mr Kachan affirmed that the Halifax Public Library system stands “as an ally to the LGBTQ+ community,” though she did not specify how the alliance relates to a policy of not requiring background checks for Drag Queen Story Time performers.
Drag Queen Story Time sparked parental concern in Scotland last March when X-rated images of 21-year-old Nathan Mullen, who performs drag as ‘Flowjob’ and is introduced as ‘Flow’ to children he reads for, were posted to Instagram and Twitter. Concern intensified when a 2018 tweet in which Flowjob joked about punching a child while hungover came to light.
