Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
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.
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.
Christopher M. Pruitt pastored a small congregation out of his Beaverton home until it recently moved to North Portland. Allegedly, he touched two girls without their consent on September 29th. He was arrested six days later on October 5, 2023.
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.
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.
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.
Andrew Lynn Overheul was the Clay County softball coach. He was arrested after he was caught filming his students. There was a party with parents and players. The players decided to have a sleepover. He said they could shower. He used a cell phone to film them. One of the girls saw a cellphone on the counter held in place by two objects. She saw it was recording. She found a recording of herself, deleted it, and called her parents. They came to pick her up. Overheul claimed it was charging. However, when Homeland Security showed up the next day and search they found more recordings and hundreds of nonconsensaul pictures of players. He was charged with six counts of producing Child Sexual Abuse Material. He reached a plea agreement, pleading guilty to two counts. He was sentenced to twenty years in prison.
Tony Bunton was the pastor at Fairview Baptist Church in Statesville, NC. In August, 2021, he was arrested and charged with possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material. He was out on bail when an additional thirty charges led to his second arrest in October, 2021.
Joseph C. Roberts known as “MAGA Joe,” he was a member of the San Francisco Republican Central Committee, a member of The Federalist Society, a board member of Families Advocating for Campus Equality, and a police advocate for Stop Abusive and Violent Environments. Both FACE and SAVE advocate for weakening protections of assault victims. He was the Republican poster child for anti-Title IX college protections when he was suspended after three women made sexual harassment accusations against him. One woman claimed she feared for her life. Betsy DeVos named him as an example when she rolled back Title IX protections.
Several years ago, before he became a state senator, he volunteered at the shelter. When Hurricane Irma was heading their way, he paid for a bus to evacuate survivors and went on the bus with them. He spoke to one of the survivors, talking about topless women, sex workers, and offering to fly her to Las Vegas. When the director heard of this, she banned him from the facility. As senator, he made several allegations against the shelter including trafficking, drug use, and a conflict of interest. These allegations proved to be false.