Moms for Liberty is against rights for the LGBTQ community, but their co-founder Bridget Ziegler and her hubs, Christian Ziegler, approve of threeways -- for themselves. As if things couldn't get worse for Christian Ziegler, whose role with the Florida GOP was demoted to a salary of $1 and no power after he refused to resign, he's rolling in the New Year with a third search warrant coming his way over whether he shared the videos of the alleged rape. That would be listed under the crime of video voyeurism.
The Herald-Tribune reports:
Sarasota Police filed an application for a third search warrant on Dec. 8 seeking records from Ziegler's Instagram account. Two previous search warrants sought his cell phone and Google account records.
A Sarasota police detective wrote in the search warrant affidavit for Instagram records that she believes "probable cause exists to show (Zeigler) has utilized Instagram to commit the crime of Video Voyeurism."
The search warrant affidavit provides more information about a video Ziegler took of his Oct. 2 sexual encounter with a woman who accused him of rape.
Ziegler was interviewed by detectives on Nov. 2 in his attorney Derek Byrd's office.
"Ziegler showed detectives the 2.5-minute-long video of the sexual encounter," according to the search warrant affidavit. "He stated that the sexual encounter was consensual."
Detectives interviewed the alleged victim and Ziegler's wife, Sarasota County School Board member and Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler.
Ziegler did not have the alleged victim's consent to record the videos.
"The victim did not give Ziegler consent to take this video of them having sex," the affidavit states. "Neither... Ziegler's wife or the victim knew anything about this video that had been taken of the sexual encounter on 10/02/23, and neither had seen the video of this encounter."
"Based on the above information, (police)... believe that evidence of the crime will be found within the Instagram account belonging to Christian Ziegler," according to the affidavit.
What is Florida law on video voyeurism? Did Christian Ziegler commit video voyeurism?
Florida law states that an individual commits video voyeurism if that person intentionally records someone "for his or her own amusement, entertainment, sexual arousal, gratification, or profit, or for the purpose of degrading or abusing another person... without that person's knowledge and consent, who is dressing, undressing, or privately exposing the body, at a place and time when that person has a reasonable expectation of privacy."
Via Politico:
The Dec. 8 search warrant, obtained by POLITICO through a public records request, seeks access to Ziegler’s Instagram messages, videos and photos, including those that were under the “vanish” mode that makes them disappear from the app.
Two and a half minutes? This entire situation has cost Ziegler his career, and now he's been outed for having an encounter that lasted under three minutes. And video voyeurism is a third-degree felony. Bridget Ziegler has refused to resign, too. She must want to be humiliated more. We wouldn't judge her if that's her kink, but she judged the gay community first. Fair is fair.
