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1495: Jason Cole

Child Endangerment, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material

Jason Duane Cole represents Ward 4 on the Warr Acres City Council. He remains on the Council as of Christmas Day although he was arrested on December 8th and charged with rape by instrumentation, indecent materials shown to a minor, and three counts of child sexual abuse.

1493: Alisha Marie George

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

Alisha Marie George was a middle-school teacher at a STEM-focused charter school in northern Utah. She also coached volleyball. She was charged with 22 criminal charges involving the grooming and sexual abuse of a former student who has since called her a monster. Other students have come forward so there may be additional charges.

1490: Krystal Hurd

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

Krystal Hurd was a Sanibel, Florida, city employee who worked as a camp counselor at Sanibel Recreation Center. She was trusted with the community’s children and exploited that trust. Four of her victims have come forward and police suspect there may be more.

1488: Andrew Paul Johnson

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Sexual Abuse Material

Andrew Paul Johnson is an insurrectionist from Tennessee who was pardoned by Trump. He has since been arrested in Tennessee and extradited to Florida to face charges of child sexual abuse. He is currently in custody without bail in Hernando County Jail. His charges include lewd and lascivious child molestation of a child under 12, lewd and lascivious child molestation of a child between 12 and 16, lewd and lascivious exhibition, and transmission of material harmful to a minor, and cruelty to children.

1487: Matthew McGinley

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

Matthew McGinley, a former worship pastor and Christian school teacher, has been charged with sexually assaulting a former student, a minor. He is also a songwriter, founder of Ascent Project, a Fort Collins, Colorado, church he co-founded.

He has been accused of grooming a student and having a sexual “relationship” (otherwise known as raping a minor) with a minor student (child.) The assaults continued for a year until the student cut off contact.

1483: Joshua Kemper

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Grooming

Joshua David Kemper was a youth pastor at Foothill Church in Coarsegold, California. He was also a virulent anti-gay and anti-trans advocate who claimed women felt unsafe in churches that welcomed gay people. That’s strange, because he was the one raping an underage child at his church. The church did well, reporting Kemper to the police. Yes, while churches around the country face scrutiny for covering up sexual abuse, this church filed a police report immediately, prompting a police investigation that resulted in Kemper’s arrest.

1473: Silas Shelton

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Grooming, Menacing, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Battery, Stalking/Harassment

Silas Shelton is still listed as the pastor at Blanchester Community Ministries. He is out on $250,000 bail for an array of crimes against children including rape and sexual battery. He was indicted for abusing one child, a member of his congregation, over the course of six years but police expect that there will be other victims as that is common with most sexual predators.

1472: John C. Sapp

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Child Rape

John C. Sapp was a youth pastor at the conservative Maranatha Fellowship church in Dover, Delaware. They ascribe to the anti-gay, anti-choice Conservative Mennonite Statement of Practice. In February, 2020, he confessed that he was raping a minor in the congregation. But only because she had told someone about it.

1471: Les Hughey

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Indecent Exposure, Organizational Cover-Up, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Misconduct

Les Hughey is the founder of Highlands Church in Scottsdale, Arizona. Highlands is a megachurch with around fifty staff. Before founding Highlands, he was a youth pastor at Scottsdale Bible Church and the First Baptist Church in Modesto, California. He left his position in Modesto after several allegations of sexual abuse of the girls and young women at the church emerged. The church sent him off without disclosing his actions to the congregation. He resigned from Highlands.

1464: Nick Fountain

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Endangerment, Child Exploitation, Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material

Nick Fountain was a Shippack Township Supervisor in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. After he was appointed to the Board in 2013, he won re-election and has been vice-chair for twelve years. He ran unsuccessfully for the Pennsylvania House in 2018 and Senate in 2022. He is also the owner of two daycare centers. He was charged with soliciting a minor and soliciting child sexual abuse material from a fourteen-year-old child in Maryland.