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Month: September 2022

192: Paul Travis Williams

Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Paul Travis Williams was the Director of a 4-H camp and chair of the Lumpkin Co. GOP when he was arrested for possession of child exploitation materials. The County Sheriff received a tip from the Georgia Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and searched his house. There they found child pornography, including one of the images from the tip. They collected 20 storage devices.

They learned the picture was uploaded from his work computer and got a warrant for his workplace and found even more child pornography. There is no evidence the pictures were taken at the 4-H Camp. In all, he was charged with 50 counts of sexual exploitation of children

191: Caleb Bailey

Child Sexual Abuse Material, Secret Photos or Recordings, Sexual Abuse
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Caleb Bailey was chosen as a Trump convention delegate representing Maryland’s Fifth District. He sent a package through the US mail with 300 rounds of ammunition in it. The package broke open. He tried to ship five packages containing ammunition and explosives through the mail. When they got a search warrant, they found a bunker with all sorts of illegal weapons, including a machine gun. They also found materials that sexually exploited children.

When he was indicted, he was charged with using a minor to “engage in sexually explicit conduct to produce child pornography.” The DOJ announcement below is more specific. Suffice it to say his sixteen year plea agreement was a gift.

190: Milo Yiannopolous

Enabling, Rape Culture
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Milo Yiannopoulos defended pedophilia. In the clip, Yiannopoulos said the age of consent was “not this black-and-white thing” and that relationships “between younger boys and older men … can be hugely positive experiences”.

He went on to suggest that sex between “younger boys” and older men could be a “coming-of-age relationship … in which those older men help those younger boys discover who they are”

189: Nicholas Kettle

Secret Photos or Recordings
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Nicholas Kettle was a Republican state senator in Rhode Island. He was arrested on charges of video voyeurism and extortion after his former long-time girlfriend filed charges. He was also charged with extorting a page by threatening his job unless he had sex with him. He resigned from office.

He shot pics of his then-girlfriend and sent them to a friend in New Hampshire. He took a plea deal and apologized to her in court. He was sentenced to a three-year suspended sentence.

The extorting sex case was dropped for two reasons. The page refused to return to Rhode Island to testify and Kettle produced chat logs of the page and him talking over several months, conversations that were flirtatious and friendly. This was perceived as exculpatory and it well might be. However, there are many examples of people who remained friendly with people who assaulted them because of the power dynamics

188: Bob Jones University

Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up, Rape Culture
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Bob Jones University has a long history of blaming the victims of sexual assault–even when they were assaulted elsewhere. In 2011, the role of BJU board member Chuck Phelps in covering up the rape of a 15-year-old and his demand that she apologize to the congregation for allowing herself to be raped.led to some BJU students speaking up about the University’s blaming victims of sexual assault.

In response, BJU hired an independent organization, GRACE, Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment, to investigate the matter in 2012. They let people make reports online and promised to protect students from repercussions when they did interviews. As they neared completion of their report, they were fired. The backlash led to rehired GRACE whose report disclosed a pattern of covering up sexual assault and punishing victims.