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150: Ralph Lee Aaron

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Sexual Torture

Ralph Lee Aaron was a conservative Southern Baptist pastor at Grace Christian Fellowship Church in Covington County, Alabama. He previously served at two other churches. When he was arrested he was charged with more than 150 offenses, most involved possession of child exploitation materials. He was also charged with sodomy, sexual abuse, and sexual torture of four boys between eight and twelve years old. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four consecutive life terms.

149: James Tracey, Jr

Rape, Sexual Assault

While James Tracey, Jr. was running for the state legislature in Maine in 1994, he was also facing rape charges in Rhode Island from 1992. He was alleged to have raped an 18-year-old fellow student at the University of Maine. They were attending a hockey game in Providence where it happened. He actually won the primary despite the charges though he lost the general. He then pleaded no contest.

148: Clarence Thomas

Sexual Harassment

In 1991, when Clarence Thomas was nominated for the Supreme Court, Anita Hill was interviewed by the FBI during their investigation of him. She was a former colleague and so was expected to confirm his good character. Instead, she told the FBI that he had sexually harassed her. Her interview was leaked and there was a media firestorm during the Clarence Thomas hearings with Republican senators calling her a liar and Democrats doing their best to see nothing. Hill had corroborating witnesses who were never called.

147: Edison Misla Aldarondo

Uncategorized

Edison Misla Aldaronda was the Republican Speaker of the House in Puerto Rico. He resigned amid a corruption scandal in 2001. A year later, a seventeen-year-old friend of his stepdaughter accused him of rape after giving her alcohol and prescription drugs. His step-daughter came forward and claimed he had been molesting her for eight years.…

146: Robert Kerns

Rape, Sexual Assault

Robert Kerns was the chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Party in Pennsylvania. He was charged with three counts of indecent assault, two counts of aggravated indecent assault, one count of rape, one count of sexual assault, and one count of simple assault. He took an Alford plea to a lesser charge of misdemeanor indecent assault. An Alford please is like pleading no contest except the defendant claims to be innocent but acknowledges he would be convicted based on the evidence.

145: Eric Greitens

Child Abuse, Familial Abuse & Violence, Sexual Misconduct

Eric Greitens was the governor of Missouri when he was accused of sexually assaulting a woman and using a photo he took of her while she was blindfolded to extort her silence. The telling thing was that members of his own party led the investigation and the demands for his resignation. Prosecutors made a deal to drop some charges against him if he resigned. He resigned.

144: Samuel Barstow Kent

Sexual Assault

Samuel B. Kent was a federal district judge appointed by George H. W. Bush. He was a powerful man at the top of the ladder in Galveston, TX. He abused that power by sexual assaulting the women who worked for the district court. When one woman came forward, he was given a short suspension, a coverup by the judges he worked with. However, her complaint triggered an FBI investigation that led to his indictment and eventual conviction and prison sentence. He was also impeached, taking away his salary and pension. He was the first district judge to be indicted for sexual assault.

143: Dana Rinehart

Child Molestation

Dana Rinehart was the Republican mayor of Columbus, OH. Back in 1978, when he was the county treasurer, it was alleged that he molested his 13-year-old babysitter. He was not indicted and the prosecutor’s decision to let him testify to the grand jury on his own behalf. Even more irregular, a psychiatrist who had never…

142: Bob Packwood

Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct

Sen. Bob Packwood was an Oregon senator who presented himself as a Republican feminist supporting abortion access and being on the correct side of the cultural issues, favoring ENDA and opposing anti-gay ballot measures. Meanwhile he repeatedly sexually harassed and sometimes groped and assaulted women.

141: Bill Shine

Organizational Cover-Up

Bill Shine was Co-President of Fox News for twenty years where he spent his time covering up sexual harassment and misconduct before President Trump hired him as deputy chief of staff for communications where he would be doing the same thing. He resigned after just a few months, having little effect on all the scandals whirling around Trump.