Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Rocky Hayes was the Chair of the Jones County Republican Party. He also has three businesses in marketing and design, photography, and managing a rental property. A DropBox employee provided a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that there was child sexual abuse material in Hayes’ dropbox. A search found two more videos on an external drive.
Alexander Nicholson was a Sheriff’s Deputy in Onandaga County, New York. In 2011, he was sentenced two two years in state prison in a plea deal that allowed him to plead guilty to one count of abusing his authority as a law enforcement officer to engage in a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old boy. That was significantly less then the 36 counts of using his authority to sexually abuse two underage boys.
He reoffended.
Deric Wallace Peacock was a youth pastor at South Hopewell Church of God. He was suspended in 2014 after being convicted of a procuring sex acts by computer of an individual believed to be under the age of 15. He was out on probation when he was arrested and charged with distributing child sex abuse material.
Jason Kennedy was the principal of Liberty Christian Academy in Athens, Tennessee. In August 2022, he was charged with sexual assault by an authority figure and solicitation of a minor. The allegations were made by a nineteen-year-old girl who claimed she was underage at the time and a student at the Academy.
Christopher Schroder was a Cincinnati police officer. In January 2023, he pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor counts of dereliction of duty. During more than a decade serving on the Personal Crimes Unit, he failed to turn in rape kits and DNA swabs, performed inadequate investigations of crimes with vulnerable victims such a minors and people with developmental disabilities, and sometimes performed no investigation whatsoever. There were 47 cases of dereliction and a 48th by the time the case came to court.
John Blanchard is the pastor of Rock Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is an ardent Trump supporter who editorialized on behalf of Trump. He remains the pastor despite his 2021 arrest for soliciting a minor. He was talking to an undercover officer. He was told he was meeting for sex with a 17-year-old girl. He arrived at the spot with money for the transaction and was arrested by the police.
Dustin Spillers was the PTA president as well as the youth pastor at the conservative Abba’s House church. He was involved in youth programs at two churches. In January 2023, he was arrested and charged with molesting two boys, specifically with three counts of sexual molestation and one count of sexual battery assault.
Brian Stout is a Republican Representative in the Oregon House. He ran for District 31 in 2018 and 2020 but lost to Democrat Brad Witt. After redistricting, the district was more Republican and he won in 2022 when Witt ran in a different district. However, one of his campaign volunteers alleged her sexually assaulted and threatened her and sought a protective order that was granted.
Michael Patterson was the City Manager of Florence, Colorado. He was arrested in November 2021 for four counts, including two counts of stalking-emotional distress, a Class 5 felony; sexual contact-no consent, a Class 1 misdemeanor; and providing alcohol to a minor, also a Class 1 misdemeanor. He was immediately terminated and ordered to stay off city property.
However, the council knew about a litany of complaints about his behavior in the office and had already settled three sexual harassment suits. They knew he had pleaded guilty to domestic violence in Oregon when they hired him. When word got out about this arrest, all but one council member resigned.
Aaron Mitchell was a Customs and Border Protection officer in Arizona when he was arrested in April 2022 for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a fifteen-year-old girl. According to the police, Mitchell approached a girl walking to school. He was wearing a tactical vest that identified him as a CBP officer. He asked her for her documentation. After she gave it to him, he told her he was taking her to the police station. Instead, he took her to an apartment complex where he raped her.