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1469: Michael Bo Peacock

Child Exploitation, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Coercion

Michael Bo Peacock was a extremely successful basketball coach, coaching the True Texas Hoops, a basketball academy, and also serving as the head coach at Grapevine Faith Christian School in Texas. He was also a co-conspirator in a multi-state conspiracy to extort children to produce child sexual abuse material which he and his co-conspirator uploaded and shared.

1467: Paul Ingrassia

Sexual Harassment

Paul Ingrassia is Trump’s nominee for the Office of Special Counsel. His nomination is stalled due to several concerns about his lack of experience since he just graduated from law school in 2022 and of bias arising from his support for Nick Fuentes and his extremist views such as the absurd notion that the descendants of enslaved people owe reparations to the descendants of those who enslaved them. He called for Trump to declare Martial Law in 2020 and for the states that voted for Trump to secede if they failed to overturn the election.

1466: Peter Bardunias

Solicitation of a Minor

Peter Bardunias is Senior Vice President of Community Advancement for the Capital Region Chamber of Commerce. He has been charged with attempting to solicit a minor. This was an internet sting in which he thought he was talking to a fifteen-year-old but was really communicating with law enforcement. He was arrested when he traveled to meet the minor. He even brought candy.

1464: Nick Fountain

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Endangerment, Child Exploitation, Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material

Nick Fountain was a Shippack Township Supervisor in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. After he was appointed to the Board in 2013, he won re-election and has been vice-chair for twelve years. He ran unsuccessfully for the Pennsylvania House in 2018 and Senate in 2022. He is also the owner of two daycare centers. He was charged with soliciting a minor and soliciting child sexual abuse material from a fourteen-year-old child in Maryland.

1463: Jordan J. Williams

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Jordan J. Williams worked at VineLife church in Brooksville, Florida. He was a teen youth leader there. Police received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about an account that was suspected of possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) which they identified as belonging to Williams.

1462: Matt Masiewicz

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Matthew Stephen Masiewicz (Pastor Matt) was the senior pastor at Sovereign Grace Fellowship, an Reformed Baptist Church in Nampa, Idaho. According to their website, they occasionally have their men’s fellowship meetings at the gun range. He was removed from his position when he was arrested for possession, distribution, and creation of child sexual abuse materials. Those he created were done with AI.

1461: Mike Pruitt

Stalking/Harassment

Michael D. Pruitt is the Johnson County, Indiana, coroner. A 17-year-old girl who cared for Pruitt’s pigs and showed them at fairs through 4-H has gotten a protective order against him for stalking, sending unwanted texts, and providing her with alcohol and gummies. The girl’s mother sought the order when Pruitt would not stop sending texts.

1460: James Gosnell, Jr.

Child Exploitation, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material

James Benjamin Gosnell, Jr. is a South Carolina Magistrate Judge, currently suspended after his arrest for possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) as well as creating CSAM. Gosnell previously drew national media attention when he presided over Charleston Church shooter Dylann Roof’s initial court appearance, after mentioning the nine people he murdered, Gosnell then claimed there were also victims on the other side. He’s been officially reprimanded in the past for showing favoritism when a fellow judge was arrested for DUI and for using a notorious racial epithet when talking to a Black defendant.