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Republican Child Molestation (409 instances)

947: Benjamin Nelson

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Assault
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Benjamin Nelson was the pastor of a small Baptist Church in Peoria, in Hill County, Texas. He was also a student at Baylor University, a private Baptist university. He used social media to draw a thirteen-year-old girl to meet him in a parking lot where he sexually abused her. Her mother found them and pulled the girl out of the car when Nelson reversed either accidentally or purposefully trying to hit them. For that he was charged with deadly conduct.

945: Sergio David Bezerra

Child Molestation
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Sergio David Bezerra was a piano teacher at Waco Baptist Academy in Texas. In 2014, he was charged with sexually abusing two nine-year-old students going back to 2007. Four young women testified that he molested them when they were students. Another reported that he made inappropriate sexual advances toward. Then another two students reported that he molested them.

944: Brian Pounds

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Grooming, Menacing
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Brian Pounds was a minister at First Assembly of God in Vernon, Texas. He was arrested in 2021 after the mother of a fifteen-year-old girl took her to the police where she reported that Pounds had been providing her with meth and sexually abusing her, including choking her one time.

943: Aaron Duane Shipman

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Rape
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Aaron Duane Shipman was the pastor of Bible Baptist Church in Odessa, Texas. In January, 2022, he was arrested for sexual assault of a minor. On January 17th, 2022, an eighteen-year-old woman went to police to report that she had been raped the night before by her pastor, who had been sexually assaulting her repeatedly since she was sixteen. They did a rape exam and found evidence of sexual trauma. He was arrested on the 20th.

942: Conrad Estrada Valdez

Child Molestation, Child Rape
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Conrad Estrada Valdez was the pastor of Restoration Outreach Church in Houston, Texas. Around 2005, a fifteen-year-old girl sought him out for counseling after she was sexually assaulted. He began touching her and eventually sexually abusing her. He threatened to expose her to her family which kept her quiet for fifteen years until she saw a documentary about sexual assault survivors.

940: Samuel Rappylee Bateman

Child Abuse, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Kidnapping, Trafficking
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Samuel Rappylee Bateman leads a Fundamentalist Mormon cult that practices polygamy. He has twenty wives, including a nine-year-old wife. The FBI believes one of his wives his own daughter. He was arrested in December 2022 and was not released on bond as he is perceived as a flight risk.

938: Jeffrey Dwain Taylor

Child Molestation, Child Rape
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Jeff Taylor was a youth pastor at First Baptist Church in Stafford. A nineteen-year-old girl admitted to her employer that she had been sexually abused by Taylor since she was eleven. Her employer called the police, reporting Taylor’s abuse. They investigated and determined that the allegations were credible. They arrested Taylor who said he did it out of love.

937: Benjamin Damron

Child Molestation, Child Rape
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Benjamin Damron was a youth pastor at different churches in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, a position he used to get close to young boys whom he sexually abused. He was arrested in November 2022. He was charged with nine counts of indecent liberties with a child and one count of sexual battery,

934: Bill Gothard

Child Molestation, Organizational Cover-Up, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Battery, Sexual Harassment
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Bill Gothard founded the Institute in Basic Life Principles which some people call a conservative Christian cult. It has very strict gender roles that circumscribe women’s lives, forbidding higher education, choosing their spouse, ordering what clothing they wear, and prohibiting cutting their hair. The Duggars are part of this ministry.