Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Gareth Reece Goode was a music school owner and the Praise and Music Director at his fundamentalist church in Boerne, Texas. Their school uses the anti-science Abeka curriculum and they promote homophobia and misogyny. In January 2023, he was arrested for aggravated sexual assault of a child, indecency with a child and harassment.
Gerald Fairbanks was an Ada County Deputy for twenty years until he retired in 2011. Boise is in Ada County. In December 2022, he was arrested and charged with several counts of child sex abuse. The allegations involve two different children, both of whom were under twelve during the time they were allegedly abused.
Alexander Nicholson was a Sheriff’s Deputy in Onandaga County, New York. In 2011, he was sentenced two two years in state prison in a plea deal that allowed him to plead guilty to one count of abusing his authority as a law enforcement officer to engage in a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old boy. That was significantly less then the 36 counts of using his authority to sexually abuse two underage boys.
He reoffended.
Jason Kennedy was the principal of Liberty Christian Academy in Athens, Tennessee. In August 2022, he was charged with sexual assault by an authority figure and solicitation of a minor. The allegations were made by a nineteen-year-old girl who claimed she was underage at the time and a student at the Academy.
Dustin Spillers was the PTA president as well as the youth pastor at the conservative Abba’s House church. He was involved in youth programs at two churches. In January 2023, he was arrested and charged with molesting two boys, specifically with three counts of sexual molestation and one count of sexual battery assault.
Aaron Mitchell was a Customs and Border Protection officer in Arizona when he was arrested in April 2022 for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a fifteen-year-old girl. According to the police, Mitchell approached a girl walking to school. He was wearing a tactical vest that identified him as a CBP officer. He asked her for her documentation. After she gave it to him, he told her he was taking her to the police station. Instead, he took her to an apartment complex where he raped her.
Scott Yotka was a Jacksonville, Florida, Sheriff’s Police Emergency Communications Officer when he arrested for producing and distributing child sexual abuse material. Of course that means he sexually abused children.
Rafael Cuevas was the pastor of Temple of Prayer Assembly of God church, a church his father built with his own hands. In 2021, he was arrested and charged with sexually abusing a child under the age of twelve from 2017 to 2020. His official charges were two counts of sexual battery and six counts of lewd and lascivious molestation against a victim under 12 years old.
Abbott was arrested in North Carolina in January, 2023, and brought to Blount County, Tennessee, for arraignment. The family originally went to the police in June. He was arrested for sexually abusing a fourteen-year-old girl. The charge of sexual battery by an authority figure is used against defendants who use their job or legal status to take advantage of their victim, or have parental or custodial authority.
Dean Alan Smith was the pastor at Morning Star Baptist Church on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana. In December 2022, he was arrested for the sexual abuse of four girls, three of them under age twelve between 2017 and 2019. He pleaded not guilty to one count of aggravated sexual abuse, one count of abusive sexual contact and three counts of abusive sexual contact by force and of a child.