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Republican Child Molestation (409 instances)

1023: Jacob Woods

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Misconduct
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Jacob Woods was a youth pastor at Rutherford County Baptist Church in Smyrna, Tennessee. He was arrested in May 2022 and indicted on five counts of statutory rape by an authority figure. According to the victim’s family, he began grooming her when she was fifteen and began raping her when she was sixteen while on a church camp trip in Indiana. He continued for two years until the family learned of it.

1020: David Arthur Kendall

Child Molestation, Sexual Battery
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David Arthur Kendall is the Director of Advocacy at Parents’ Rights Maine. He is incredibly active and platformed by Maine legislators, the hate group Moms for Liberty, and many anti-trans hate organizations. He has testified to the legislature at the invitation of lawmakers. He is featured in an anti-trans documentary, “Affirmation Generation.” He is a convicted child molester.

1019: Jeffrey Bedwell

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Grooming
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Jeffrey Bedwell was a pastor at Chets Creek Church in Jacksonville, Florida. He was arrested in 2021, accused of grooming and sexually assaulting a child since she was twelve until she was seventeen. He got to know her when she was twelve and began seriously grooming her when she was thirteen. When she was fourteen, he began raping her. He raped her until she was seventeen.

1017: Anastasia Dawson

Child Abuse, Child Endangerment, Child Molestation, Child Rape
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Anastasia Dawson was a ward youth leader at an LDS church in Hamilton, Missouri. In February, 2023, she was charged with seven felony sexual abuse crimes involving a sixteen-year-old minor. She has been charged with 2nd degree statutory sodomy, 2nd degree statutory rape, abuse or neglect of a child, 1st degree endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of 4th degree child molestation.

1014: Stephen Arthur Morris

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Grooming, Solicitation of a Minor
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Stephen Arthur Morris was the pastor of Oliver’s Grove Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist conservative church. In July 2019, he was arrested and charged with raping a thirteen-year-old girl who attended his church. She reported this when she was eighteen. In October 2019, two additional women came forward to report his attempts to abuse them when they were minors. In 2020, they also charged him with possessing child sexual abuse materials after searching his electronics.

1012: Clark Travis

Child Molestation, Sexual Abuse
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Clark Travis was a pastoral leader at two churches, the Centerville Apostolic Church and Apostolic Life United Pentecostal Church in Buffalo, TX. In February, 2023, he was arrested along with his older brother. According to Leon County Sheriff’s office, they abused their pastoral position to sexual abuse at least five children. Clark was charged with five counts of Sexual Assault of a child and one count of Sexual Abuse of a Child under 14.

1011: Matthew T. Travis

Child Molestation, Sexual Abuse
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Matthew T. Travis has been accused of using his position as pastor of Apostolic Life United Pentecostal Church in Buffalo, TX, to exploit children. He has been arrested, along with his brother, for child sexual abuse. They are alleged to have abused at least five children. Matthew was indicted with three counts of sexual abuse of a child.

1009: Fred Gammon

Child Molestation, Improper Conduct or Comments, Sexual Abuse
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Fred Gammon of Miami, Oklahoma, is the pastor of Wayside Assembly of God church in Wyandotte. He is accused of sending inappropriate sexual texts to a child and sexually abusing her. His wife told police that he now had a different view of the child and was being tested by god and that he asked her forgiveness and she gave it. He is charged with child sexual abuse.

999: Scott Christner

Child Molestation
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Scott Christner was a youth pastor at First Baptist Church in Goshen, Indian. He led a group of pre-teen boys called The Olympians. In 2019, one boy came forward and alleged he touched him inappropriately. He was arrested and four more boys came forward. He was charged with ten felony counts of child molestation and two felony counts of sexual misconduct with a minor. The children were ages all under fourteen when they were molested.