Democratic Rep. Alan Mollohan’s Republican challenger is attacking his voting record on bills to protect abused children, although Mollohan sponsored legislation to create a nationwide system for tracking missing kids.

“Alan Mollohan has spent so much time scheming to fleece the taxpayers out of their hard-earned tax dollars that he has completely lost touch with the fact that he is in Washington, D.C., to serve us and our families, not the other way around,” said Chris Wakim, the GOP nominee for Mollohan’s First Congressional District seat, on Saturday.

Wakim points to Mollohan’s votes between 2002 and 2005 against bills including the Children’s Safety Act, the Child Abduction Prevention Act and the Prosecutorial Remedies and Tools Against the Exploitation of Children Today Act.

“Nothing Alan Mollohan can say will ever change the fact that... [he] was one of only nine representatives... who voted against the bills,” said Wakim, a House of Delegates member from Ohio County.