Republican State Lawmaker Accused of Seducing 15-Year-Old Girl

A Republican state delegate and teacher from West Virginia has been charged with seducing a 15-year-old girl who is a student at his school. Investigators have accused David Elliott Pritt of using Snapchat and the multiplayer game Roblox to start talking to the girl outside of school during the 2024–2025 school year, when she was in eighth grade. At the end of that year, he allegedly told the child that he “loved her,” and sent her a picture of himself in pajama pants and asked for pictures of…