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999: Scott Christner

Child Molestation

Scott Christner was a youth pastor at First Baptist Church in Goshen, Indian. He led a group of pre-teen boys called The Olympians. In 2019, one boy came forward and alleged he touched him inappropriately. He was arrested and four more boys came forward. He was charged with ten felony counts of child molestation and two felony counts of sexual misconduct with a minor. The children were ages all under fourteen when they were molested.

998: Adam James Maass

Abuse of Power or Authority, Sexual Assault

Adam James Maass is an endocrinologist though his Arkansas medical license was suspended after he was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting his patients. After one woman reported him to police, alleging that Maass touched her breast without her permission. Ten other woman have come forward. One of the women said she began seeing him when she was ten and he began touching her inappropriately when she was fifteen. She switched doctors.

996: David Stone

Child Sexual Abuse Material

David Stone was a Richmond, Virginia, police officer. He was arrested in January 2023 and charged with fifty child sexual abuse material charges. The Sheriff’s office began investigating in 2022 when they got a tip from Southern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. They searched his home in November 2022. When his electronic devices were examined fifty images of CSAM were found including pictures of infants.

995: Richard E. Jacklin

Abuse of Power or Authority, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault

Richard E. Jacklin was an Illinois Catholic priest at St. Mary Immaculate Parish whose bulletins are full of denunciations of secular and liberal government. He was arrested in 2017 after a nurse walked in and caught him performing oral sex on a patient. He argued in his defense that the patient forced him to do it. The patient was partially paralyzed and had an IQ of 47.

994: Thomas Gilman Hartman

Abuse of Power or Authority, Coercion, Sexual Assault

According to 4029 News, “The man said Hartman played mind games and manipulated him into sex because Hartman knew the man didn’t have anywhere else to go. He said he felt trapped because he was on probation. He said he was afraid Hartman could call the bail bondsman and have his bond revoked.”

993: Gareth Reece Goode

Child Indecency, Child Molestation

Gareth Reece Goode was a music school owner and the Praise and Music Director at his fundamentalist church in Boerne, Texas. Their school uses the anti-science Abeka curriculum and they promote homophobia and misogyny. In January 2023, he was arrested for aggravated sexual assault of a child, indecency with a child and harassment.

992: Adam Jeremy Lewis

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Adam Jeremy Lewis was the Youth Director at Rock Mountain Lakes Baptist as well as a middle schhemool teacher and wrestling coach. In January 2023, he was arrested and charged with possession child sexual abuse material. The church and school placed him on leave. His church posted on a now deleted Facebook post that he and his family need prayers “in a major way.”

991: Gerald Fairbanks

Child Molestation, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery

Gerald Fairbanks was an Ada County Deputy for twenty years until he retired in 2011. Boise is in Ada County. In December 2022, he was arrested and charged with several counts of child sex abuse. The allegations involve two different children, both of whom were under twelve during the time they were allegedly abused.