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1190: Mike Bickle

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Grooming, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct

Three former leaders of International House of Prayer released a public statement on October 28th, 2023, that asked the organization to address the several long-standing allegations of sexual misconduct by Mike Bickle, what they referred to as the “collective and corroborating testimony of several victims.”

1189: Matthew Wyatt

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material

Matthew Thomas Wyatt was a frequent guest preacher at Southside Baptist Church in Yadkinville, North Carolina. The pastor confirmed that Wyatt preached there several times but wanted it understood he was not officially a pastor there. He was charged with felony sex crimes involving a child less than fifteen years old.

1188: Tammy Tyner

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Battery

In a plea agreement, she submitted an Alford plea for two counts of sexual battery. Instead of serving the 120 days, the sentences were suspended. She will serve two years probation and register as a sex offender. Probation for raping exchange students living in her home. The other charges were dismissed.

1181: Justin Durham

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Coercion, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault

Justin Bradley Durham is a former Sheriffs Deputy in Phelps County, Missouri. He was arrested and charged with sexually exploiting two minor girls and recording it, creating and possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material. He was also charged with altering and destroying records to try to cover up his crimes.

1180: Ronald Van Overloop

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Grooming, Sexual Battery

Ronald Van Overloop was the pastor at the anti-gay Grace Protestant Reformed Church in Tallmadge Township, Ottawa County, Michigan. He was also an influential leader in the Protestant Reformed Church with his sermons and articles featured in the denomination’s publications and websites.

1175: Gregory Norton

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault

Gregory Norton was a former youth pastor at Oak Hill Church: Church of the Nazarene and the Westside church located on Old Middleburg Road. He was arrested in September, 2023 and charged with sexual battery of a child he met through church and another person he met as a nurse at a children’s hospital. In October , 2023, when he was charged with ten additional counts of sexual battery of a child older than twelve and less than eighteen while he had custodial authority.

1174: Matthew Dessert

Child Molestation, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery

Matthew Dessert was a sheriff’s deputy in Stanislaus County, California. He was charged with continual sexual abuse of a child, lewd & lascivious acts with a minor, penetration with a foreign object of a victim under the age of 18, sexual battery & physical abuse of a child.

1169: Austin Perkins

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Grooming

Austin Perkins was a youth pastor at Grace Fellowship Baptist Church in Floyd County, Georgia. In 2022, during a child sexual abuse material investigation, seven men were arrested. Perkins was one of those arrested.

He had a child with no home or family in his care whom he was abusing and filming to create Child Sexual Abuse Material. The child was rescued from this abuser.