Guilty Again! BLM Leader Pleads To More Sex Abuse Charges

Last week we reported that Micah Rhodes, one of the Black Lives Matter organizers in Portland, was found guilty of sex abuse charges in Washington county, adjacent to Portland. Rhodes has now plead guilty to another sex abuse charge in Multnomah County, this time involving an underage boy that he hooked up with via the Grindr app.

The Oregonian reports:

Portland protest leader Micah Rhodes gave up his legal fight Tuesday by pleading guilty to a second round of sexual abuse charges against him, this time for having sexual contact multiple times with a 17-year-old boy.

The victim couldn’t consent to the contact because he was a minor. Rhodes — then 20 or 21 — was more than three years older than the teenager at the time of the 2014 or 2015 encounters. He met the boy on a gay dating app.

Rhodes, now 24, was a leader of the protest group Portland’s Resistance, which rose to prominence after Donald Trump won the presidential election in November 2016 and the group helped organize day after day of marches and rallies.

But Rhodes had long been a part of Portland’s activist scene before that and a familiar face at Portland City Council meetings. Among his notable achievements was helping stage a camp-out in front of then-Mayor Charlie Hales’ home in 2016.

Rhodes pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree sexual abuse in Multnomah County Circuit Court.

It’s unclear how much time Rhodes faces in the Multnomah County case.

The Oregon Youth Authority began supervising Rhodes when he was 14, for sexual abuse and sodomy, authorities said. According to court records, Rhodes was 13 or 14 years old in 2007 when he sexually abused a boy who was 9 or 10 years old.

Washington County Deputy District Attorney Andy Pulver argued in court papers that Rhodes has a “sexual predisposition toward minor children.”

Rhodes had been required to register as a sex offender at the time he was charged in the Multnomah and Washington county cases.

According to the Oregon courts webpage, Rhodes was originally facing five charges, 4 counts of Sexual Abuse in the Second Degree and one count of Third Degree. The plea deal is for two counts of Second Degree.

Neither the Multnomah County jail or Washington County jail list him as currently in custody, so he is likely out on the streets until his sentencing. His bail is $2,000 in Multnomah county, and was raised from $1,000 to $5,000 in Washington county after showing up 2 minutes late for a court appearance.

Micah Rhodes, with fellow protester Greg McKelvey, at a court appearance on Disorderly Charges, stemming from the post election riots in 2016. Those charges were, of course, dropped by the leftist appeasing District Attorney Rod Underhill.

Rhodes at a press conference in 2016, alongside then police chief Mike Marshman, who has since resigned in disgrace, and then Portland mayor Charlie Hales, who opted to not run for a second term and left office in disgrace.

 

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