Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Aaron Doyle Mirtsching was a youth pastor at Thrive Church and a kindergarten teacher at New Dimensions Charter School in North Carolina. In August, 2023, he was arrested for three counts of exploitation of a child through possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material. The material presented children between the ages of 8 to 10 being sexually abused. He was released with a $20,000 bond.
Allan Kyle Jones was the pastor at Lifeway Community Church in Loxley, Alabama, since 2015. The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office said they were tipped off by another law enforcement agency that Jones had downloaded Child Sexual Abuse Material. They got a subpoena and found Child Sexual Abuse Material on his cell phone. They said they may add additional charges after they check his other devices. He is out on $60,000 bail for four counts of possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material.
Joshua Hageman was a police officer in Wichita, Kansas. In May, 2020, he was charged with inappropriately touching two 15-year-old girls. The incident happened in 2012 when he was twenty.
Miracle Meadows was a boarding school for troubled youth in Salem, West Virginia. It was under the aegis of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Founded in 1988, it operated until it was closed down in 2014.
A desperate student drank a cleaning product, was taken to the hospital where she begged for help. An investigation into the school began and the school’s education status was revoked.
Jason Kerby is a Christian musician who was on the worship team at Beltway Park Worship and at First Baptist before that. He’s competed in Abilene Idol, coming in third place and has several songs on Apple Music.
He began grooming and abusing a fourteen-year-old boy and sexually abused him until he was a senior. The boy told his parents when he was in college. They brought charges.
Christopher Garrett Marsh was the Chair of the Florence County District Five Board of Trustees. In 2021, he was arrested and charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct with a victim under age 11, two counts of criminal sexual conduct with a victim 11 to 14, and two counts of third degree sexual conduct with a minor. The victim was first assaulted in 2015 when she was five and the abuse continued until February 2021. The child’s mother was also arrested and charged with neglect because she was knew about the assault in 2015 and did nothing to protect her child after she was assured it was a one-time thing.
Timothy Ballard is the man whose story inspired the film “Sound of Freedom.” He founded Operation Underground Railroad (OUR) with an international mission of fighting human trafficking. According to OUR, its staff includes many former law enforcement and intelligence officers who have conducted raids saving thousands of children from traffickers. However, it is being investigated by the Utah Attorney General. VICE News has conducted years of investigation into OUR and found a patter of distortion and exaggeration of their international rescue efforts and their collaboration with law enforcement in the U.S.
Fabian Marta is a right-wing school board activist who also was one of the many donors for the crowdfunded “Sound of Freedom.” He is accused of assisting a woman who kidnapped her children from their lawful parent, harboring them in an apartment building he owns.
Justin Russell Barron was a firefighter in Lewisburg, Tennessee. In September, 2021, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, received a complaint that he sexually assaulted a child. The assault was alleged to have happened in 2020. On August 23, 2023, the evidence was presented to a grand jury and Barron was indicted on one count of Aggravated Sexual Battery and one count of Rape of a Child.