Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Brian Pounds was a minister at First Assembly of God in Vernon, Texas. He was arrested in 2021 after the mother of a fifteen-year-old girl took her to the police where she reported that Pounds had been providing her with meth and sexually abusing her, including choking her one time.
Aaron Duane Shipman was the pastor of Bible Baptist Church in Odessa, Texas. In January, 2022, he was arrested for sexual assault of a minor. On January 17th, 2022, an eighteen-year-old woman went to police to report that she had been raped the night before by her pastor, who had been sexually assaulting her repeatedly since she was sixteen. They did a rape exam and found evidence of sexual trauma. He was arrested on the 20th.
Conrad Estrada Valdez was the pastor of Restoration Outreach Church in Houston, Texas. Around 2005, a fifteen-year-old girl sought him out for counseling after she was sexually assaulted. He began touching her and eventually sexually abusing her. He threatened to expose her to her family which kept her quiet for fifteen years until she saw a documentary about sexual assault survivors.
Jonathan Ryan Ensey was music director and worship leader at Living Way Church where his father was pastor. He pursued a sexual relationship with a child he met when she was nine. As her pastoral leader, he persuaded her that what he was doing was perfectly fine. So fine that she mentioned to her father that she was in a relationship with him. The father found thousands of texts from him to his daughter including a photo Ensey took from the pulpit referencing fellatio that he sent to a child.
Samuel Rappylee Bateman leads a Fundamentalist Mormon cult that practices polygamy. He has twenty wives, including a nine-year-old wife. The FBI believes one of his wives his own daughter. He was arrested in December 2022 and was not released on bond as he is perceived as a flight risk.
Brian Stout is a Republican state representative in Oregon. A woman who was active in the Columbia County Republican Party alleged that Stout aggressively pursued her sexually with her consent to kissing and touching each other. But he pushed her and tried to rape her. His wife walked in on them before he raped her.
Jeff Taylor was a youth pastor at First Baptist Church in Stafford. A nineteen-year-old girl admitted to her employer that she had been sexually abused by Taylor since she was eleven. Her employer called the police, reporting Taylor’s abuse. They investigated and determined that the allegations were credible. They arrested Taylor who said he did it out of love.
Benjamin Damron was a youth pastor at different churches in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, a position he used to get close to young boys whom he sexually abused. He was arrested in November 2022. He was charged with nine counts of indecent liberties with a child and one count of sexual battery,
Joseph Brody was the volunteer coordinator on Glenn Youngkin’s gubernatorial campaign. This is after he assaulted a police officer during the Insurrection according to the FBI. In addition, he has a long history of advocating violence against women. He approves of Eliot Rodger, the mass murderer, for targeting women. Online he harassed women and threatened them with rape.
Kevin Etherington was the Assistant District Attorney of Logan and Payne Counties in Oklahoma. In November, 2022, he was arrested and charged with possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM.)