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941: Jonathan Ensey

Child Indecency, Solicitation of a Minor

Jonathan Ryan Ensey was music director and worship leader at Living Way Church where his father was pastor. He pursued a sexual relationship with a child he met when she was nine. As her pastoral leader, he persuaded her that what he was doing was perfectly fine. So fine that she mentioned to her father that she was in a relationship with him. The father found thousands of texts from him to his daughter including a photo Ensey took from the pulpit referencing fellatio that he sent to a child.

940: Samuel Rappylee Bateman

Child Abuse, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Kidnapping, Trafficking

Samuel Rappylee Bateman leads a Fundamentalist Mormon cult that practices polygamy. He has twenty wives, including a nine-year-old wife. The FBI believes one of his wives his own daughter. He was arrested in December 2022 and was not released on bond as he is perceived as a flight risk.

939: Brian Stout

Menacing, Sexual Assault

Brian Stout is a Republican state representative in Oregon. A woman who was active in the Columbia County Republican Party alleged that Stout aggressively pursued her sexually with her consent to kissing and touching each other. But he pushed her and tried to rape her. His wife walked in on them before he raped her.

938: Jeffrey Dwain Taylor

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Jeff Taylor was a youth pastor at First Baptist Church in Stafford. A nineteen-year-old girl admitted to her employer that she had been sexually abused by Taylor since she was eleven. Her employer called the police, reporting Taylor’s abuse. They investigated and determined that the allegations were credible. They arrested Taylor who said he did it out of love.

937: Benjamin Damron

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Benjamin Damron was a youth pastor at different churches in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, a position he used to get close to young boys whom he sexually abused. He was arrested in November 2022. He was charged with nine counts of indecent liberties with a child and one count of sexual battery,

936: Joseph Brody

Intimidation, Menacing, Stalking/Harassment

Joseph Brody was the volunteer coordinator on Glenn Youngkin’s gubernatorial campaign. This is after he assaulted a police officer during the Insurrection according to the FBI. In addition, he has a long history of advocating violence against women. He approves of Eliot Rodger, the mass murderer, for targeting women. Online he harassed women and threatened them with rape.

934: Bill Gothard

Child Molestation, Organizational Cover-Up, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Battery, Sexual Harassment

Bill Gothard founded the Institute in Basic Life Principles which some people call a conservative Christian cult. It has very strict gender roles that circumscribe women’s lives, forbidding higher education, choosing their spouse, ordering what clothing they wear, and prohibiting cutting their hair. The Duggars are part of this ministry.

933: Wendel Nix

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Wendel Nix was the youth pastor at Aztec Bible Baptist Church. He was arrested in 2007 on charges that he raped a fourteen-year-old girl. He groomed her over time and then began sexually abusing her. He family talked her into going to the police and more charges were added as they interviewed her. It’s interesting how his job description changes.

932: Malo “Victor” Monteiro

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Grooming

Malo “Victor” Monteiro was youth pastor at Faith Baptist Church in Wildomar, California, and assistant pastor at Menifee Baptist Church in Menifee, California. He was arrested in 2018 on suspicion of molesting children over an eighteen-year period and charged with seven felony counts: intent to commit rape, mayhem or sodomy, lewd and lascivious acts with force on a child under 14, lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14, distributing harmful matter and sexual penetration by force.