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689: Jim Rostberg

Child Indecency, Child Molestation

Jim Rostberg was a Minnesota state representative. In 2000, he was arrested and charged with three counts of criminal sexual conduct. The complaint alleged repeated sexual assaults of a child, the daughter of family friends, over several years. The child was fourteen when Rostberg was arrested. When her mother confronted him, Rostberg said he felt bad about it.

688: Garabed Haytaian

Sexual Harassment

Garabed “Chuck” Haytaian was the Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly. He was accused of sexual harassment by a Republican staffer who worked as his assistant. She said he frequently pawed, hugged, and kissed her. As part of her suit, she sought a transfer from working in his office. The state settled the suit which meant that Haytaian never had to admit guilty or face the consequences since the taxpayers paid the settlement and his legal fees.

687: John Diehl

Sexual Harassment

John Diehl was Speaker of the House in the Missouri state legislature. He resigned in 2015 after it was revealed he had an intimate relationship with a 19-year-old college student serving as an intern at the state Capitol. He was 49 at the time and a sanctimonious advocate of the “sanctity of marriage” and opponent of gay marriage.

685: Edward Burgess

Child Indecency, Child Molestation

Edward Burgess was a city councilman in Carlisle, Ohio. He was also president at the Lions Club where he fondled a child. He was arrested and charged with gross sexual imposition. The child molester originally claimed that the eight-year-old girl “came on to him.” For that alone, his sentence of thirty days is woefully inadequate.

684: Gary Lee Hansen

Child Molestation

Gary Lee Hansen served on the Sac City City Council until 2015. In 2017, he was charged with sexually abusing a six-year-old child. The child reported it when she was twelve. According to the police report, Hansen admitted to the abuse. He was convicted on two counts of lascivious acts with a child

673: Lee Chatfield

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Abuse

In January, 2022, the news broke that he was being investigated for the sexual abuse of a young girl beginning when she was fourteen and continuing for twelve years. The abuse is alleged to have started when she attended his church and the associated school where he was a gym teacher. When the girl turned 18, she married Chatfield’s brother and the relationship between Chatfield and his sister-in-law continued until 2021 when she went to the police.

672: David Smock

Child Molestation, Child Rape

David Smock has been accused of sexually assaulting boys and covering up the physical abuse of students by other staff members. He was a fugitive for a while before being arrested in Arkansas. He has been charged in two separate counties for thirteen felonies including sexual assaulting minor boys.

671: John Robert Griffin

Child Sexual Abuse Material

John Robert Griffin was a pastor at Riverbend Community Church in Ormond Beach, Florida. He also was a professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach. He was arrested for possession of child sexual abuse material. Shortly before his arrest, he asked the state to reinstate him and his wife as foster parents.

670: William Dalton Milam

Child Sexual Abuse Material

According to FDLE, they got a cybertip from the National Center for Missing Children about someone uploading images of child sexual abuse. The IP was traced to Milam’s home. He was charged with two counts of promoting sexual performance of a child and 25 counts of possession of child pornography. They found multiple devices that belonged to Milam that contained child sexual abuse material, including images as you as three engaged in sex acts.

669: Jim Watkins

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Jim Watkins is the owner of 8chan, 8kun, and 5channel. He is a conspiracy theorist and the host of QAnon, the locus of conspiracies about politicians, pedophilia, and drinking blood and adrenochrome. Mass shooters post their manifestos there. The Pizzagate conspiracy originated there.

8kun hosts child sexual exploitation domains.

For all his Q opposition to child sexual abuse, he hosted forums for sharing child sexual abuse pictures and videos. When moderators came to him concerned about material they saw, he exhibited indifference. He said there was just too much material to delete.