Gov. Tim Walz Defends Pedophilia, Says Society Should Not Judge Child Molesters On Their ‘Worst Days’

Gov. Tim Walz has defended his decision to pardon a convicted pedophile in an effort to stop his deportation, claiming that society should not judge child molestors on their “worst days.”

According to the Minnesota governor, dangerous men who prey on children should instead be judged by how they live the rest of their lives.

In Minnesota on Tuesday, Walz specifically questioned the Trump administration’s deportation of a pedophile from his state to Laos while defending the illegal immigrant.

Laotian national Tou Lue Vang, 42, was deported to his native country last week after illegally entering the U.S. in 1994, the Daily Mail reported. The Clinton administration granted Vang legal status in the U.S., but he was issued an order of removal in 2006 after being convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a girl between 2002 and 2004.

Walz said regarding Vang’s deportation, “They made that choice. I guess the question I would ask is, did that make us any safer?”

“Did that make the children that are left behind any more stable?” Walz said of Vang’s deportation.

Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio overruled the state pardon by revoking Vang’s legal status, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported him back to Laos.

Vang was 18 when he began sexually assaulting the girl in 2002 and offered her $10 in exchange for her silence.

Addressing his decision to pardon Vang, Walz incorrectly said, “Just remember, both were minors.”

Vang wrote in his letter requesting clemency, “What I did was wrong. It was a serious crime. She was a child. If I am sent away, we lose everything. My children will lose their home, and they will lose their education. They will grow up without a father.”

Around the time of his arrest, Vang justified his actions as “a cultural thing,” and even said the girl was just as guilty as him and should also be arrested, according to the Department of Homeland Security.