Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Pete Newman was a Camp Director at Camp Kanakuk, a Christian children’s camp in Branson, Missouri. Over the years, he abused his position to sexually abuse dozens of boys, some as young as nine. He pleaded guilty to sexually abusing six boys, but admitted to abusing at lead 13 more. The prosecutor estimated the actual number could be in the hundreds.
Ravi Zacharias was the head of an international ministry. Originally a supporter of Marco Rubio for President, he switched to supporting Trump. When he died, Mike Pence spoke at his funeral. Allegations of sexual misconduct were made before his death, but it really blew up when Christianity Today released a report detailing his sexual harassment of women who work at massage parlors.
Tom McCullagh was a Republican primary candidate for a state House seat. However, he withdrew when the details of an investigation into his alleged grooming of an underage girl became public. A person reported that McCullagh gave the girl a bottle of vodka. When the police tried to extract the child’s cellphone data, they could not as the data was corrupted. As such, the thought the only probably charge was contributing to the delinquency of a minor. McCullagh was not questioned because the family did not want to pursue the matter.
Alejandro Carmona-Fonseca was a deputy on the Jacksonville Sheriff’s office. A teen boy met Carmona at a gym and connected with him on Snapchat in the expectation that Carmona would give him workout advice, which he initially did. He began requesting photos of the teen without his shirt and then he began sending explicit pictures of himself.
James Ricky Carter was a Hart County, Georgia, Commissioner. But then he was arrested with his son after an altercation at a family gathering. His son beat a 61-year-old family member who was hospitalized with serious injuries. The victim’s grandchildren were witnesses. Carter was charged with making terroristic threats and acts and point a gun at someone. His son was charged with aggravated assault, aggravated battery, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, terroristic threats and acts, and three charges of cruelty to children in the third degree. Additional charges were added, including cruelty to children charges to Commissioner Carter.
Paul Mumford was a retired Tampa police officer, though he remained a Reserve Officer. He was arrested in 2022 for possession of more than a hundred items of CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material.) He was fired as a Reserve Officer after his arrest. Ironically, he worked on the sex crimes unit.
Jeff Ford was a teacher when he had a sexual relationship with a student. The student was of age, but the relationship remains an abuse of power and teachers having sexual connections with students is unethical.
Since then, he founded a nonprofit called Man Up and Go which is attempting to reduce fatherlessness through their “Authentic Masculinity Program, which equips men both internationally and domestically to be protectors of and providers for their families.” This has let to his role on Governor DeSantis’ Florida Faith-Based and Community-Based Advisory Council.
Alan Moran was serving his second term as a city councilman in Diamondhead, Mississippi, when he was appointed mayor pro tempore in July 2021. He seemed to following his father’s career. His father is State Senate Phillip Moran.
Then he was arrested and charged with two misdemeanors, simple assault and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. This seems inadequate to the circumstances. Even Moran remarked at the time, “That’s it?”
Jose “Pepe” Diaz was the mayor of Sweetwater, Florida before serving twenty years on the county commissioner. He has termed out and announced in February 2023 that he will run for Sweetwater mayor again. He was sued by a city employee who claimed he made inappropriate sexual comments including suggesting she shake her hips at a business meeting. After she filed a complaint, he fired her.
Michael McGuire was the youngest mayor in Blasdell, New York, when he was sworn in back in 1978. He was also a math and science teacher at Immaculata Academy, a Catholic all-girls school. That was where he groomed some of his students and sexually abused them for three years. Three of them sued him in 2019 under New York’s Child Victims Act, though two of them confronted him several years ago when he told them he was just preparing them for college.