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1125: Ryan Kissell

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault

Ryan Kissell was a special education teacher and football coach at Nodaway Valley Community School District in Greenfield, Iowa. He lived in Creston, 22 miles south. He had also taught there and at two other schools in the area.

He was arrested August 16, 2023, and charged with 21 counts of second-degree sexual abuse, 24 counts of lascivious acts with a child, and one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child. The most recent alleged incident was July 5th.

1118: Cole Wagner

Child Molestation, Sexual Abuse

Marty DeCole (Cole) Wagner is a former employee of the Alabama Department of Education. He was active in the Young Republicans. He also spent three years working for AL Governor Ainsworth. He is also the former Executive Director of the committee Alliance for a Pro-Life Alabama that proffered a constitutional amendment that said there was no right to abortion in Alabama. That amendment allowed for the immediate banning of abortion in Alabama. Cole spoke of the need to defend those who could not defend himself. In his now-deleted Twitter account he joked about Joe Biden’s “inappropriate hugs.”

1116: Ray Uttaro

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Coercion, Grooming, Kidnapping, Menacing, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery

Raymond Uttaro worked for Nelson County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia as a jailer and a D.A.R.E. officer. D.A.R.E is a program that works with children to teach them strategies for resisting bad choices regarding drugs, gangs, and other violence. A young boy came forward and described what was done to him. He also said Uttaro…

1115: Scott Saunders, Jr.

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Assault

Scott Saunders, Jr. was the mayor of Smithville, Texas. He was arrested in June 2021 and charged with two counts of sexual assault of a minor and one count of indecency with a child. In July 2023, he pled guilty, though the judge declared he was not guilty of one of the sexual assault charges.

1113: Angela Stewart

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Sexual Battery

Angela Leigh Stewart was a teacher at Lighthouse Christian School. She was arrested for inappropriate sexual conduct with an underage special needs child. She began texting the child in November 2022 and met the student outside school. When questioned by her supervisor, she said she was supporting the student who she believed was being abused.

1107: Donald Lee Flanery

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Donald Lee Flanery was pastor of Family of Christ Church in Maynard. He sexually abused a child for two years starting when she was eleven. The news stories are horrific. He told the girl that what he was doing was Biblical. During the trial, Flanery’s daughter testified that he sexually abused her twice when she was fourteen.

1106: Jamie Flanery

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Grooming, Sexual Assault

Jamie Flanery, an Arkansas youth pastor, is accused of sexually assaulting a fifteen-year-old girl in 2012. The first time was when she at his house with her fellow students. The second, and more serious, happened when she was driving and he texted her to pull over. He got in her car and sexually assaulted her, she claims. He was charged with First Degree Sexual Assault.