Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Michael Paul Keech was a youth pastor at Saluda River Baptist Church in West Columbia, South Carolina. He began working there in 2019 and was fired in 2021 when a new pastor took over. Within two weeks of the new pastor taking over, Keech was fired. He said “there were some thing that were in the personnel file that I found to not being conducive of the personality and character of someone serving in the ministry. So we fired him.”
Trent Ivey was a Southern Baptist youth pastor at Vestal Baptist Church in South Knox, Tennessee. He was arrested in 2021 for sexual battery with a 16 and 18-year-old girl. He is out on bail and has a 2024 court date with deferred disposition which means he pled no contest, must meet certain obligations, and then there will be criminal conviction on his record.
Ryan Scott Walsh was a youth pastor at Gulf Breeze Methodist Church in Florida. Parents of a 13-year-old girl found inappropriate texts on her phone. They went to the church pastor who chose to handle it internally at first, until the church learned Walsh had also touched the child. Then the church went to the police.
When he was arrested, police reported he had communicated and solicited nude photos from 20 to 25 young girls aged 14 to 17. He pled guilty to online solicitation and was sentenced to 5 years.
Jonathan Mark Myers was a youth pastor and principal of a parochial school associated with the same church in Edinburgh, Indiana. As principal, he pursued an inappropriate relationship with a young girl. He gave her rides to and from church and began grooming her. Eventually, he began sexually abusing her.
Kyle Broussard is a member of Patriot Prayer. He was convicted of rape in 2021, but in March 2023, that conviction was reversed because the trial court excluded his roommate’s testimony that he was usually home, though uncertain if he was home the night of the alleged rape. That he was usually home implies that Broussard wasn’t likely planning in advance to get the woman alone and rape her. Will the state retry the case?
Robert Lee West is a member of Patriot Prayer. He ran into trouble in Portland by doxxing police and city officials, filming their homes, and even threatening to film their children. West is a convicted sex offender. In 1984, he was convicted of assault with intent to commit rape, sodomy, or oral copulation. He was sentenced to seven years.
Alexander Hillel Treisman planned to assassinate Joe Biden just one month before the 2020 election. He also talked of doing a mass shooting. He was apprehended when people were suspicious of his white van in a bank parking lot. It was full of weapons visible through the window. Police arrested him and found a long…
Kevin Strom was a white nationalist and neo-Nazi who led National Vanguard, a short-lived splitter organization from the National Alliance. He was convicted of possessing child sex abuse material and sentenced to 23 months. He pled guilty in a plea deal while elocuting to his crime he basically argued he was not guilty.
In 2021, Shenk was caught in catch-a-predator sting and charged with production or distribution of obscene matter, distribution and exhibition of harmful matter to a minor, contact or communicate with a minor with intent to commit specified offenses, arrangement of meeting with a minor for the purpose of engaging in lewd acts, attempted lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age, attempted oral copulation, and attempted sodomy,