The man has been charged with child sex crimes, including possessing porn depicting the sexual abuse of infants.
By Catholics for Catholics
A man who boasts about being the first open drag queen to be elected to a school board in the United States, was arrested for sex crimes involving minors as young as 18 months.
Travis J. Longo, 46, who is the vice president of the Cazenovia Central School District’s board of education in New York state, was charged over a “pattern” of sending explicit communications to a child under 12 years old, according to a story by the Daily Wire. Investigators discovered child pornography in Longo’s phone.
Tyler Toomey, a spokesperson for the United States Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of New York, said some of the videos on Longo’s appliance depicted the sexual abuse of infants.
In 2024, Longo was elected to the school board. He has been charged federally with receiving and possessing child pornography and also faces four counts of placing in danger the welfare of a child in state court.
“Who’d have thought that electing a drag queen to the school board could go wrong?” New York radio host and journalist Bob Lonsberry commented online. “Cazenovia NY school board Vice President Travis Barr-Longo was arrested last week on state charges of having sexually explicit communications with a child under 12, and on federal charges of possessing pornography ‘depicting the sexual abuse of infants.’”
In his Instagram page, Longo periodically posted his drag queen persona. In one video, the school board member brags about his leadership in the community and openly says that he’s not a predator.
Kevin Linck, Cazenovia’s School District Superintendent, said in a statement that Longo is currently barred from any school grounds or district-sponsored events, but added that he’s still on the school board.
“The District became aware of the arrest of our Board of Education vice-president Travis (Barr) Longo when the news was publicly disseminated at approximately 10:00 this morning,” Linck said. “Mr. Barr is not an employee of the District, he was elected by the Cazenovia voters to a 3-year term in May of 2024. The role of a school board member is not a student facing role. Please be assured that we take all such matters with the utmost seriousness.”
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