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740: Paul Reeves

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Paul Reeves was the mayor of Ashland, Kentucky. He resigned after he was charged with receiving two videos that contained child sexual abuse material. He ordered the videos from an undercover company run by postal inspectors. When they entered his home, they caught him watching a CSAM video. They began investigating Reeves when his credit card information was found on a server. He was sentenced to 42 months in prison.

739: Ed Bayne

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Ed Bayne was the mayor of Seven Fields, Pennsylvania, since 2006 until he was arrested for possession child sexual abuse material. Police seized all the computers at his home and found 24 items of child sexual abuse material including a video with a 9-year-old girl. They were alerted to someone downloading CSAM and traced it…

738: Jack Shay

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Jack Shay was once the mayor of Ketchikan and the Ketchikan borough. He served on the school board and was even “citizen of the year.” He dropped off a computer for repair and child sexual abuse images were found. Employees are required to report this. The police were notified and he was arrested and charged with 91 counts of possession of child sexual abuse materia. He agreed to plead guilty to 7 counts of possession of CSAM and was sentenced to 35 years with 18 suspended. As he was 81 when he was sentenced in 2012, that is effectively a life sentence.

737: Mike Stoecklin

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Mike Stoecklin was the mayor of Saunemin for two terms ending in 2008. In 2010, he was under consideration for an appointment to a state Senate seat. He was also a grade school coach at Saunemin Grade School. He created child sex abuse material, taking pictures of himself with one of his students. He also sexually abused the student. Authorities said he filmed himself posed in a sexual manner while engaged in a sexual act between him and a child under the age of 18.

736: Cary Rhodes

Solicitation of a Minor

Cary Rhodes was the mayor of Taylorsville, Georgia. He was also the chief financial officer and secretary of the Taylorsville Baptist Church. He also managed to get caught in an FBI undercover child sex sting when he replied to a Craigslist ad. He was charged with attempted aggravated child molestation and violating the Computer Pornography and Child Exploitation Act. He agreed to a plea deal that resulted in two years in prison and ten years probation, considerably less time than most people in that situation get.

734: Joe White

Organizational Cover-Up

Joe White is the son of the founders of Camp Kanakuk, one of the largest Christian camps in the United States, a camp that hosts about 12,000 children each year. He remains the Camp Kanakuk director despite his role in covering up and protecting child molesters who worked for him.

733: Pete Newman

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Pete Newman was a Camp Director at Camp Kanakuk, a Christian children’s camp in Branson, Missouri. Over the years, he abused his position to sexually abuse dozens of boys, some as young as nine. He pleaded guilty to sexually abusing six boys, but admitted to abusing at lead 13 more. The prosecutor estimated the actual number could be in the hundreds.

732: Ravi Zacharias

Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery, Sexual Harassment

Ravi Zacharias was the head of an international ministry. Originally a supporter of Marco Rubio for President, he switched to supporting Trump. When he died, Mike Pence spoke at his funeral. Allegations of sexual misconduct were made before his death, but it really blew up when Christianity Today released a report detailing his sexual harassment of women who work at massage parlors.

731: Tom McCullagh

Improper Conduct or Comments

Tom McCullagh was a Republican primary candidate for a state House seat. However, he withdrew when the details of an investigation into his alleged grooming of an underage girl became public. A person reported that McCullagh gave the girl a bottle of vodka. When the police tried to extract the child’s cellphone data, they could not as the data was corrupted. As such, the thought the only probably charge was contributing to the delinquency of a minor. McCullagh was not questioned because the family did not want to pursue the matter.