1098: Bradley Putnam
Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material
He was “home-schooling” her, but she received no schooling, instead she was raped.
Republican Abuse of Power or Authority (102 instances)
1090: Donny Raney
Abuse of Power or Authority
Donny Raney was a high school pastor and the middle school soccer coach. He was also the pastor of Okeechobee Missionary Baptist Church. He was arrested and charged with being an “authority figure engaging in a romantic relationship with a student.”
1087: Christopher Fourcade
Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Secret Photos or Recordings, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery
Christopher Fourcade was Director of Children’s Ministries at at First Christian Church in Norman, Oklahoma. He also was a foster care advocate and fostered several children. He was also Service Delivery Chair at the Fostering Futures Organization. He was Secret Santa.
1086: Christopher Hundl
Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Sexual Battery, Sexual Misconduct
Christopher Hundl was the pastor of Mountain Valley Church and the Baylor University chapter of Chi Alpha, an ecumenical global campus ministry sponsored by the Assemblies of God. Baylor University is a Southern Baptist private university in Texas with a multi-denominational student body. Hundl was an employee of the Assemblies of God, not Baylor University. He resigned his position shortly before being arrested in May 2023 for allowing minors to be sexually abused by his spiritual mentor, Daniel Savala, a registered sex offender. At the time of his arrest, the sex offender was not named. Savala was arrested in June, 2023. The Chi Alpha chapter was also suspended by the University.
1080: Michael Sperou
Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Grooming, Organizational Cover-Up, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery
Michael Sperou was the pastor at North Clackamas Bible Community. Most people would call NCBC a church but they reject that term as inadequate to the meaning of their fellowship. They proudly announce and promote the teachings of Mike Sperou and he is all over their website despite his third-time conviction for raping children.
1078: Jana Bradford
Abuse of Power or Authority, Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up
Jana Bradford claimed a tough-on-crime record in her successful campaign for Prosecuting Attorney in the Ninth Judicial District in Arkansas. That may be true, so long as the criminal is not her uncle, instead she spent years using her influence to help him evade justice again and again.
Trigger warning because of scope of child sexual abuse.
1074: Emma Hancock
Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Indecency, Grooming
Emma Hancock was a substitute teacher at Wellston Public Schools. Her father is the Mayor and her husband the Chief of Police. She allegedly groomed a 15 year-old-boy via text, exchanging nude and sexually explicit pictures. She also sexually abused him twice in person, groping him in the classroom closet, according to affidavit.
1072: Erickson Lee
Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Endangerment, Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Grooming, Sexual Battery
Erickson Lee was a police officer in Cornelius, South Carolina, and a youth leader at Morningstar Ministries, leading their Young Special Forces. Lee started the program and ran it. That was where he allegedly met and groomed the boys. He invited him to his home, provided alcohol, showed them pornographic movies and touched them without consent, according to the police. The boys were from 14 to 17 years old.
1050: Bryan Slaton
Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Endangerment, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct
Bryan Slaton used to be a Baptist pastor. He also ran for the Republican nomination for the Texas House of Representatives. He lost the primary in 2016 and 2018, but won handily in 2020 after a relentlessly negative primary fight. In the House, he was a culture warrior, introducing a bill that would allow the…
1046: Wesley Kendall Allen
Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Rape
She was a minor and she was in custody that gave him power over her. The victim’s mother reported the rapes when she read her daughter’s diary and what she wrote about him.
The victim described how he would take her to off-camera places to assault her. Videos confirm them going out of camera range. A video also confirms that he watched her while she showered. He pleaded guilty in March 2023.
While waiting to be sentenced another victim came forward and claimed he raped her in 2005 when he was a police officer. She felt compelled by his size and his position as a police officer. Investigators confirmed what was possible to confirm after all this time, such as the layout of his apartment, etc.