Soros-backed Central Florida prosecutor allows man charged with molesting child to avoid prison

Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell has once again been credibly accused of treating a child molester with kid gloves.

Worrell, a Democrat prosecutor who was first elected to office in 2021, is a Soros-funded leftist who’s repeatedly been caught treating dangerous criminals with kid gloves:

Florida AG calls out Soros-backed Dem prosecutor for ‘heinous’ soft-on-crime approach to pedos https://t.co/qtYNfnAJ6u via @BIZPACReview

— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) September 27, 2025

Her latest mishandling of crime involves a longtime child molester named Peter Washington.

According to Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, a Republican, Washington was convicted of attempting to rape a child under 12 in 1995. He was arrested again for molesting a child over the age of 12 in 2023.

For his second offense, he faced up to 27 years in prison. Yet Worrell decided to pursue a paltry sentence of just 15 years of probation instead.

In 1995, Peter Washington was convicted of attempting to rape a child under 12.

In 2023, Washington was arrested again. This time for molesting children over age 12. He was facing 27.25 years to life in prison.

In June 2025, Monique Worrell gave him just 15 years of probation. pic.twitter.com/aZas2KV8eR

— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) October 9, 2025

Uthmeier has been on Worrell’s case for a while now — and rightly so, it appears. Earlier this week, he drew attention to another case involving her.

This time around, she drastically reduced the charges being faced by a man who’d opened fire on his ex-girlfriend 12 times while she was in the drive-through at a fast-food restaurant.

“In defiance of the Florida Legislature, she allowed Alain Barrett to escape mandatory minimum sentences after he shot at his ex-girlfriend twelve times in an attempt to murder her,” Uthmeier explained in a tweet. “Thanks to her, he will likely spend less than 10 years behind bars.”

State Attorney Monique Worrell is putting violent criminals back on the street, including a man who should have faced life in prison.

In defiance of the Florida Legislature, she allowed Alain Barrett to escape mandatory minimum sentences after he shot at his ex-girlfriend twelve… pic.twitter.com/N1f5iLDII8

— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) October 7, 2025

“This was first-degree attempted murder, but State Attorney Worrell pled it down to a second-degree offense without a firearm,” Uthmeier added in the video above. “She waived the mandatory minimums in the case.”

Earlier this fall, Uthmeier also demanded that Worrell explain why she’d handed out light sentences in several other cases involving children.

One case involved a 61-year-old man accused of masturbating in front of children at a public park, and the other case involved a man who shared videos of the rape of infants and toddlers.

“These dismissals lacked sufficient legal justification, exhibit gross abuses of discretion, pose serious threats to public safety, and undermine the public’s confidence in the administration of justice,” Uthmeier wrote to Worrell in a letter last month.

State Attorney Worrell declined to prosecute a 61-year-old man who masturbated in front of children, and dismissed a case against a man who possessed and shared videos showing rape of infants and toddlers.

Heinous actions that endanger kids. Do your job and enforce the law. pic.twitter.com/wFIPDty98h

— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) September 26, 2025

Worrell subsequently sought to defend her decision in the masturbation case.

“All things that are wrong are not illegal,” she said during a press conference. “And I’m not standing before you today telling you that what happened in that park was wrong. But I am standing before you today telling you that I trust the word of the attorney who was assigned to this case when he said, ‘Although those actions were wrong, he could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they were illegal.’”

Uthmeier didn’t buy the excuse:

Nope. It’s quite illegal. https://t.co/ykARY4NaVi

— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) September 26, 2025

In a statement made to Florida’s Voice, Worrell called Uthmeier’s criticisms a “predicable pattern meant to undermine trust in law enforcement and build another political witch hunt to overturn the will of the voters who overwhelmingly re-elected me back into office.”

“If the Attorney General does not like the law as written, he should take those concerns to the legislature and stop wasting taxpayer resources on baseless political attacks and attempts to interfere with this office,” she added.

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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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