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Former CEO of Org Sponsoring Drag Queen Story Hour Arrested for Child Sex Abuse Images
DIANA SHAW – 1 April 2021 – 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, brett.blomme@gmail.com. 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…
Milwaukee County Children’s Court Judge Brett Blomme charged with 7 counts of child pornography
BRUCE VIELMETTI – 18 March 2021 – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A Milwaukee County Children’s Court judge was charged Wednesday with seven counts of possessing child pornography that showed the abuse of young boys.
Brett Blomme, 38, was arrested Tuesday and spent the night at the Dane County Jail. He made his initial appearance in Dane County on Wednesday afternoon, where a court commissioner set a signature bond, with the conditions Blomme not use social media or file sharing services, or have unsupervised contact with children, except for his own. By 4 p.m. he had been released.
Each of the counts carries a minimum mandatory sentence of three years and as much as 15 years in prison plus 10 years of supervised release.
The criminal complaint charges that Blomme uploaded as many as 27 images and videos of children being sexually abused last fall, using the messaging app Kik. The uploads charged in the complaint occurred from a home he and his husband own in Cottage Grove, in Dane County.
The couple has two adopted children. Court records do not suggest they are part of any of the illegal images. Child Protective Services is involved with their current placement, defense attorney Christopher Van Wagner said during the court hearing.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General David Maas. He argued for a $2,000 cash bail, that Blomme not be allowed to have a cellphone or any unsupervised computer use (except for with his attorney) and no unsupervised contact with any children, even his own…