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829: Jonathan Young

Child Rape

Jonathan Young was the Sunday School teacher at Firstborn Baptist Church in Benson, North Carolina. In 2022, he was convicted of sexually abusing three girls at church and on church buses. One of the survivors, Brianna Holland, went public and said the abuse began when she was nine and continued for two years. The youngest victim was only seven.

828: Chuck Phelps

Organizational Cover-Up, Rape Culture

Chuck Phelps was the pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in New Hampshire. Now he is a pastor in Indiana. He attended Bob Jones University. In 1997, Tina Anderson was fifteen years old and babysat for Ernest Willis who was thirty-nine at the time. She became pregnant and gave the baby up for adoption and Willis…

826: Eric Schmitt

Organizational Cover-Up

Eric Schmitt is Missouri’s junior Senator, previously he was the Missouri Attorney General. He was highly criticized for his lack of action in addressing violence and abuse at Christian boarding schools in Missouri. As Attorney General he was heavily criticized for his inaction toward the ongoing abuses at Christian boarding schools in Missouri. Agape is the most famous one and DHS records show that he was repeatedly informed that abuse and enslavement was happening at Agape.

825: Julio Sandoval

Trafficking

Julio Sandoval is the former dean of Agape Boarding School, a place that claimed to provide guidance and education to unruly boys by providing structure and discipline. Agape closed down in January, long after it should have been closed. Sandoval has been charged with transporting a child against his will from California to Missouri. While he was dean, children were abused and psychologically tortured according to former students. Even predators who sexually abused children were kept on staff.

824: Tom Horne

Enabling, Rape Culture

Tom Horne is currently the Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction. During his 2022 campaign, he defended hiring former Arizona Rep. David Stringer for his campaign. He didn’t just hire him and defend it, he made the false claim that Stringer was proven innocent.

823: Keenan Hord

Uncategorized

Keenan Hord was the youth pastor at the First Baptist Church in Bentonville, Arkansas, and before that, he served two years at Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, Tennessee. Both churches are infamous for anti-gay organizing. Sen. Bart Hester, a deacon at FBC Bentonville, advocated for the 2015 law that banned local anti-discrimination ordinances that could…

822: Robert Karnes

Rape Culture

He also has some bizarre views on child molestation. Sen. Karnes opposed a rape and incest exception to an abortion ban because he seems to think the rapist will pressure them to abort to get rid of the evidence. He also seems to think that since child victims of pedophiles are groomed to think there is a relationship, then they should not be allowed to get an abortion because they don’t think of it as rape when it’s happening. “You know the dynamic in these relationships quite often is that the child has a very romanticized view of what’s happening. … They think that this is their boyfriend,” he said.