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Month: December 2025

1487: Matthew McGinley

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Grooming, Sexual Assault
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Matthew McGinley, a former worship pastor and Christian school teacher, has been charged with sexually assaulting a former student, a minor. He is also a songwriter, founder of Ascent Project, a Fort Collins, Colorado, church he co-founded.

He has been accused of grooming a student and having a sexual “relationship” (otherwise known as raping a minor) with a minor student (child.) The assaults continued for a year until the student cut off contact.

1486: John Emanuel Banuelos

Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual Assault
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John Emanuel Banuelos is an insurrectionist. He brought a gun to the insurrection and fired it twice inside the Capitol. He was still pardoned in the mass pardon of January 6 participants, even the violent ones. He was arrested for the stabbing and killing of a man in 2021, though the DA decided he acted in self-defense and did not charge him. However, during interrogation for that offense, he bragged to detectives about being at the Insurrection, even pointing himself out on video. When indicted for that he was making light, telling the judge Trump would win the election and pardon him. Well, that happened. However, his DNA was collected and it matched a 2018 rape case, leading to his most recent indictment for eight counts of sexual assault and one count of kidnapping. These crimes happened in Utah, though he has since moved to Illinois.

1485: Scott Mason

Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Scott David Mason is a former lobbyist for Trump’s 2016 campaign. He was a congressional liaison for the Trump transition team. After that, he was hired as a senior policy advisor at Holland & Knight, a law firm that made a record amount in lobbying fees after hiring Mason. He is not a lawyer.

He was indicted October 22, 2025, for possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material. He is alleged to have distributed CSAM fifty times on Kik, a social media site popular with with minor children (57% of users) which makes it popular with sexual predators.

1484: Joseph Burkhart

Assault, Familial Abuse & Violence, Menacing, Stalking/Harassment
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Joseph Burkhart was a Republican at-large city council member in Bellevue, Ohio, when he was arrested in September, 2025. At the time, he was indicted on seven charges. In October, a grand jury indicted him on twenty-two charges, eighteen of which are felonies. At the time of his indictment, he was the Chair of the public safety committee. He remained on the November general election ballot in Sandusky County. Bellevue lies at the intersection of Erie, Huron, Seneca, and Sandusky counties. That is why he was arrested by Huron County deputies and is on the Sandusky County general election ballot. He got 11% of the vote.

1483: Joshua Kemper

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Grooming
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Joshua David Kemper was a youth pastor at Foothill Church in Coarsegold, California. He was also a virulent anti-gay and anti-trans advocate who claimed women felt unsafe in churches that welcomed gay people. That’s strange, because he was the one raping an underage child at his church. The church did well, reporting Kemper to the police. Yes, while churches around the country face scrutiny for covering up sexual abuse, this church filed a police report immediately, prompting a police investigation that resulted in Kemper’s arrest.