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99: Paul Williams

Child Abuse, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Incest

Paul Williams was the minister of prayer and special projects at Bellevue Baptist Church, a Tennessee mega-church. He molested his son for 12 to 18 months before stopping and claims he has never done anything similar since. His son spoke about it as an adult which led to Williams confessing it to his pastor. Baptist…

98: Steven Wilsey

Child Molestation

Steve Wilsey was a youth counselor for Focus on the Family. He was convicted in December 2000 for molesting an eight-year-old boy, “sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust.” The boy’s mother worked for Focus on the Family. Wilsey offered to mentor her three sons in 1992 after she…

96: Lawrence Scott Ward

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Trafficking

Lawrence Scott Ward was an Ivy League professor at Harvard Business School and later at Wharton. He was hired by major companies as a consultant making him a rich man. He was the Chairman of the Marketing Department at University of Pennsylvania. He also founded a nonprofit called the Rebound Foundation which included faculty and students at Penn, in order to help “troubled kids.” It was easy access for Ward to exploit and abuse these kids and he took full advantage of it.

95: Daniel Dean Thompson

Child Molestation, Child Sexual Abuse Material

Daniel Dean Thompson thought modern movies were too full of profanity and nudity. He claimed to have founded CleanFLIX where he bowdlerized popular films. He edited out the swear words and the nudity. But this was a front. He was also producing child sexual assault material with Isaac R. Lifferth, films of him and Liffert…

93: Marshal Seymour

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Marshal Seymour was a youth pastor at a Baptist megachurch in Florida before pleading guilty to molesting three young boys. Ten years earlier he was arrested for the same thing in Mobile, AL, and pled to a lesser charge for which he was sentenced to one year’s probation. He moved to Florida with a clean…

81: Donald Fleischman

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Solicitation of a Minor

Donald Fleischman was the Brown County, Iowa, Republican Party Chair when he was charged with felony counts of child enticement and exposing himself to a minor. He offered marijuana and alcohol to two minors, told them they could live with them if they ran away. The complaint alleges that Fleischmann fondled and performed sexual acts…

74: John Bryan

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Assault

John Bryan, a Republican city councilman in St. Petersburg, was accused by a woman who claimed Bryan began sexually abusing her while she was a minor and that he sexually assaulted his two adoptive daughters. When the allegations came out, he resigned from the City Council. Before the police arrested him, he killed himself. Fox…

73: Wilton Frederick Bland

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Sexual Assault

Wilton Frederick Bland ran as a Republican candidate for Mineral County Commission in West Virginia but lost about a year before he was arrested on 136 charges: 73 counts of possession of child pornography; 45 counts of sexual assault in the first degree for allegedly having sex with a child under age 11; nine counts…

71: Clifton Bennett (Sen.Ken Bennett)

Child Molestation, Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up, Pro-Rape Judge, Rape Culture, Sexual Assault

Clifton Bennett’s father is Ken Bennett, a Republican who has been in elected office most of the time since 1985. He’s running for Arizona Senate in the GOP primary now. In 2006, when his son was eighteen, Ken Bennett was President of the Arizona Senate. That position gave his son the sweetheart plea deal of…