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1320: Marty Wallace

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Exploitation, Child Molestation, Secret Photos or Recordings

Martin “Marty” William Wallace owns Therapies, Inc. in Sheldon, Iowa, where he practiced as a mental health counselor and play therapist. He was arrested in May, 2024, after a thirteen-year-old child reported that Wallace had touched him inappropriately at least three times. Those details are in the news links below.

1319: Jonathan Elwing

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Sexual Abuse

Jonathan Edward Elwing was the pastor of Palm View Baptist Church in Manatee County, Florida for the past five years. He has been serving as pastor in various places since 2003. He has been charged with eighteen felonies related to his possession, distribution, and manufacture of child sexual abuse material. He filmed himself sexually abusing a child under the age of twelve.

1316: Luke Cunningham

Child Molestation

Luke Cunningham served as youth pastor at Turning Point Community Church in Lubbock, Texas, and, more recently, at Lakeside Baptist Church in Granbury, Texas. That is where he was working when he was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a minor. Lakeside’s pastor contacted his previous employers to let them know he was being investigated and had been arrested. He was terminated.

1315: Thomas Deane

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material

Thomas Louis Deane was a History/Social Studies teacher and lacrosse coach at Canterbury School, a private school in Ft. Myers, Florida. In February, 2022, a woman reported her son was the victim of a sex crime.

Police investigated and found evidence showing Deane had found the minor on Grindr and then communicating on SnapChat, arranged to meet the child in person. He was arrested in April, 2022, and charged with lewd and lascivious behavior on a victim under the age of 16 and a second charge of lewd and lascivious behavior on a victim between the ages of 12 and 16. A month later, he was rearrested, charged with 28 counts of possession of child sexual abuse material.

1313: Robert Morris

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Robert Morris was until recently the pastor of Gateway, a Dallas megachurch. He was also a spiritual advisor to Donald Trump and an influential Trump booster.

He recently confessed “When I was in my early 20s, I was involved in inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady in a home where I was staying.”

The young lady was twelve. He did not have an affair with her. He raped her and continued the sexual abuse for four and a half years. She described the abuse herself:

1311: Ronnie Killingsworth

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Indecency, Child Molestation

In June, 2023, he was charged with six counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact. These charges allege the abuse continued over eleven years. In May, 2024, he was convicted on all six counts and has been sentenced to 42 years in prison, about half what the jury recommended. He is 79. He could get parole in 21 years when he is 100 years old.

1309: Russell Tusing

Child Molestation, Incest, Sexual Battery

Russell Jon Tusing II was the pastor at extremely conservative Sovereign Grace Church of LaGrange in Troup County, Georgia. Like many extreme conservatives, he reflexively calls people who disagree with him unchristian and communist. When Aaron Bushnell, the Air Force serviceman set himself on fire in protest of Israel-Hamas war, he called him a godless communist. He was suspended in March 2024, after his arrest for molesting a 13-year-old girl. His daughter.

1305: Jeff Hill

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Sexual Exploitation of a Child

Jeffrey Allan Hill was a youth coach before his arrest in October, 2023, for sexual assaulting three children who have now come forward as adults. Hill was involved in working with children in the Greensboro, North Carolina, community for decades which led police to believe there may be many more victims. Unsurprisingly, he was charged…

1304: Alu Axelman

Child Molestation, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery

Elliot “Alu” Axelman was a Republican candidate for New Hampshire State Legislature. Vivek Ramaswamy listed him as an endorser in the 2024 presidential primary. He is an advocate for New Hampshire Secession.

He has been arrested and charged with false imprisonment, two counts of simple assault, and four counts of sexual assault, all misdemeanors. The alleged incident happened at a Libertarian fair called Porcfest and the victim was just fourteen. She had been separated from her parents and her phone was dead. She ran into Axelman, a family friend. He texted her mother that he had found her, but then offered her alcohol, took her to a field, and would not let her leave, kissing her and grinding against her

1303: Leo Riley

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Indecency, Child Molestation

In 2024, the police have five former altar boys who have come forward and the statute of limitations has changed to reflect the fact that most people do not report they were abused as children until far into adulthood. Only 8% of victims report within a year.