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408: Jefferey Short

Child Molestation, Child Rape
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Jeffrey Short was an Asher, Oklahoma, city councilman and a former ICE agent. He was indicted for the rape of two minor children. He was arrested the day after the parents reported the assaults to the police. In 2008, the Department of Homeland Security substantiated that a different child, a 14-year-old claimed he preyed on her. Allegedly, he showed sexual exploitation to minors in his ICE office. He was never charged with those incidents.

407: Greg Abbott

Rape Culture
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Greg Abbott is the Republican governor of Texas who just won re-election in 2022. He contributed to rape culture by vetoing a bill to protect children from being prosecuted when they are the victims of sex traffickers. One of the great injustices of our legal system is that when children are trafficked, they are prosecuted…

406: Amanda Chase

Rape Culture
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Amanda Chase is a Republican state senator in Virginia. She’s well-known for a few outrageous things she has said. She earned her place on this list with her contribution to the foundational argument of rape culture – that it is the victim’s fault for being raped. In a discussion about the public carrying guns, she…

405: Harry Thomas

Child Molestation, Child Rape
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Harry Thomas was a conservative New Jersey pastor. He founded the Creation Festival, a Christian musical festival and Come Alive, a missionary organization. He was convicted of raping four children (one less than ten years old) and inappropriate contact with a fifth. He was sentenced to twenty years without parole, a sentence reached in a plea deal.

404: John Martin

Child Molestation
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John Martin was the head pastor of Lighthouse Baptist Church, a conservative anti-gay church. He confessed an “affair” to his wife, which is an odd way of describing child molestation. He then admitted it to the church and church leaders went to the police. “The Lighthouse Baptist Church in Florence is an extremely socially conservative…

403: Marcia Silva

Pro-Rape Judge
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Marcia Silva was a Republican and a family court judge who refused to allow a teen rapist be tried as an adult because she believed the twelve-year-old victim wasn’t seriously harmed other than losing her virginity, which the judge decided wasn’t particularly serious even though the girl was left bleeding. “Silva wrote in her August…

402: James Troiano

Pro-Rape Judge
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James Troiano, a Republican New Jersey family court judge, refused to allow a predatory sixteen-year-old rapist to be tried as an adult because he came from “a good family” and was accepted into a good school. Trying minors as adults is questionable practice, but the totality of this case is extraordinary. A sixteen-year-old boy was…

401: Todd Poole

Familial Abuse & Violence
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Todd Poole was the Executive Director of the North Carolina Republican Party and later went to work for several Republican officials. In 2019, he was working for U. S. Rep. Ted Budd when he was arrested for domestic violence and charged with assault. The charge was dismissed when the woman withdrew her complaint.

400: Valentino DiGiorgio III

Sexual Harassment
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Valentino DiGiorgio III was chair of the Pennsylvania Republican Party but was forced to resign after he sent unwelcome sexual texts to a woman who was running for Philadelphia City Council. They connected over Facebook and then began texting each other, some of the texts were flirtatious, but then the messages got overly sexual and she told him that he made her uncomfortable and harassing her. He sent her a dick pic.

399: Stephen Bratton

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Incest
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Stephen Bratton was a Southern Baptist pastor in Texas. He supported a bill that would charge women who had an abortion with murder. In 2019, he was arrested for repeatedly raping a minor child from 2013 to 2015, starting when she was just 13. He admitted guilt to his wife and three pastors at his…