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1181: Justin Durham

Justin Bradley Durham is a former Sheriffs Deputy in Phelps County, Missouri. He was arrested and charged with sexually exploiting two minor girls and recording it, creating and possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material. He was also charged with altering and destroying records to try to cover up his crimes.

G.O.P. F-Ups: Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Coercion, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault

1180: Ronald Van Overloop

Ronald Van Overloop was the pastor at the anti-gay Grace Protestant Reformed Church in Tallmadge Township, Ottawa County, Michigan. He was also an influential leader in the Protestant Reformed Church with his sermons and articles featured in the denomination’s publications and websites.

G.O.P. F-Ups: Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Grooming, Sexual Battery

1179: Phillip Koons

Phillip Koons is a Hall of Fame high school football coach in Ringling, OK. He is also listed as the Ringling High School Principal and his wife the school counselor. Other family members also are on staff and his sons are assistant coaches. He is alleged to have abused students verbally and physically. There is no official in the school whom students could turn to who is not connected to Koons.

G.O.P. F-Ups: Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Abuse

1178: Kent Prestwich

Kent Daniel Prestwich was a nursery leader from Lewiston, Utah, for the LDS church. He was arrested in October 2023 for possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material. An investigator saw an IP address requesting Child Sexual Abuse Material via peer-to-peer and tracked the IP to Prestwich. After executing a search warrant, investigators found nine materials of child sexual exploitation of little girls who appeared to be between six and ten years old. The materials are described in the affidavit.

1176: Martin Burns

Martin Burns is a pastor of Winamac Nazarene Church in Indiana. He has been charged with two criminal counts of battery after a surveillance video appeared on social media allegedly showing him kneeling on the chest of a 4-year-old boy at a church day care center. The child was hanging on his leg, making it difficult for him to walk. So, he kneeled on the four-year-old child’s chest until he began coughing and let go of him.

1175: Gregory Norton

Gregory Norton was a former youth pastor at Oak Hill Church: Church of the Nazarene and the Westside church located on Old Middleburg Road. He was arrested in September, 2023 and charged with sexual battery of a child he met through church and another person he met as a nurse at a children’s hospital. In October , 2023, when he was charged with ten additional counts of sexual battery of a child older than twelve and less than eighteen while he had custodial authority.

G.O.P. F-Ups: Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault

1174: Matthew Dessert

Matthew Dessert was a sheriff’s deputy in Stanislaus County, California. He was charged with continual sexual abuse of a child, lewd & lascivious acts with a minor, penetration with a foreign object of a victim under the age of 18, sexual battery & physical abuse of a child.

G.O.P. F-Ups: Child Molestation, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery