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Republican Child Molestation (409 instances)

315: Matthew “Deme” Cooper

Assault, Child Molestation, Uncategorized
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Matthew Demetrius Cooper is a member of Patriot Prayer, one of the far right militia groups “standing by” to wage war on the United States. When he was in Virginia and was charged with two counts of raping a child. He skipped out and has been living in Washington. He comes to Portland as a leading member of Patriot Prayer, participating in the Cider Riot attack, and bragged on Twitter about beating a trans woman with a bat. He tweeted, “Sucks for your retarded comrade, we should’ve ended them instead of let them live. Next time I’ll make sure they don’t make to a hospital.”  He is identified as Deme Cooper in most news articles.

293: Eric Schleien

Child Molestation, Sexual Assault
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Eric Schleien was a New Hampshire state representative for two terms. His role model was Rand Paul. He is currently a podcaster, investor, and media personality His website says he is a tribal leader, but that’s a corporate training certification and has nothing to do with any indigenous tribe. He does not mention that he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a child.

280: Roy Bolden

Child Molestation
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Roy Bolden was a pastor of the Legions of Christ Ministries in Providence, Rhode Island. It’s a church that happily risks its nonprofit status with openly partisan, pro-Republican teaching. He was also the Chair of the Providence GOP. In 2017, he was charged with child molestation. The case is ongoing and the next pre-trial conference is in late October, 2022.

The accuser was 21 in 2017 when he went to the police. He said the abuse began when he was twelve and continued for six years.

272: Merril Robert Barter

Child Molestation
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Merril Robert Barter was the Lincoln County GOP Commissioner for twenty-eight years and the Town Clerk of Boothbay Harbor, Maine, for forty-sex years. At age sixty-nine he went to the state Republican convention in Augusta and was arrested for having sex with a minor. At first he pled innocent but then changed his plea to guilty on two counts of unlawful sexual contact and sexual assault on a teenage boy was sentenced to 364 day suspended sentence and a year’s probation to serve consecutively.

271: Jack W. Gardner

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape
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Jack W. Gardner was convicted of child molesting over thirty years before the Republicans ran him for office. He was the Millersville Council Vice-President and a GOP committeeman for several terms. Republicans are fond of arguing that pedophilia cannot be treated, but I guess it’s okay if you’re a Republican.

In 1970, he pleaded guilty. He was charged with assault with intent to ravish, corrupting a minor, and indecent assault of a minor. She was thirteen, he was twenty-four at the time. He pleaded guilty to all charges and was sentenced from three to 23 months for assault with intent to ravish and a year’s probation for all the rest. He was paroled after just three month.

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267: Paul Pressler

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Organizational Cover-Up, Rape
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He has been accused by several men of raping them when they were minors. In 2017, a man came forward suing Judge Pressler, claiming he was raped by Pressler when he was just fourteen and the sexual assaults continued for decades. As often happens, once one person comes forward, others find the courage to come forward as well. According to court records, he settled with another accuser in 2004. He was successful in getting the suit dismissed because of the statute of limitations, but his accuser appealed and won in the Texas Supreme Court in April, 2022.

266: Mark Aderholt

Child Molestation, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Misconduct
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Mark Aderholt was a Southern Baptist leader who was charged with the sexual assault of a teenager more than a decade after she reported it to church authorities. They investigated and wrote her a letter confirming their investigation suggested the abuse occurred. They did not report it to authorities. Aderhold pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and placed on deferred adjudication, which is like probation, but will allow him to have his conviction erased.

254: Ted Nugent

Child Molestation
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Ted Nugent is a rock musician who actively supports Republican politicians. He’s threatened to kill President Barack Obama and was then invited to Obama’s State of the Union. He is a big Trump supporter and generally an awful human being. He’s also a pedophile which is brags about in his lyrics, adding the very true line, “It’s quite all right I asked your mama.”