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1181: Justin Durham

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

Justin Bradley Durham is a former Sheriffs Deputy in Phelps County, Missouri. He was arrested and charged with sexually exploiting two minor girls and recording it, creating and possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material. He was also charged with altering and destroying records to try to cover up his crimes.

1175: Gregory Norton

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

Gregory Norton was a former youth pastor at Oak Hill Church: Church of the Nazarene and the Westside church located on Old Middleburg Road. He was arrested in September, 2023 and charged with sexual battery of a child he met through church and another person he met as a nurse at a children’s hospital. In October , 2023, when he was charged with ten additional counts of sexual battery of a child older than twelve and less than eighteen while he had custodial authority.

1169: Austin Perkins

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

Austin Perkins was a youth pastor at Grace Fellowship Baptist Church in Floyd County, Georgia. In 2022, during a child sexual abuse material investigation, seven men were arrested. Perkins was one of those arrested.

He had a child with no home or family in his care whom he was abusing and filming to create Child Sexual Abuse Material. The child was rescued from this abuser.

1167: David Cornelius

Child Molestation, Child Rape

David Cornelius was a math, science, and Bible teacher at First Baptist Church in Danville. When allegations of abuse arose, they moved him on to another church without informing anyone of what happened. He was charged in 2003 with sexually abusing a young child in his wife’s daycare, as well as soliciting sexual favors from a high school student at his new school position with Schlarman High School. He pleaded guilty in 2004. He was sentenced to four years probation.

1153: Jim Pierson

Child Endangerment, Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape

James Hugh Pierson was on the City Council of Flower Mound, TX. He served two years before resigning shortly before his arrest for continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14, a first-degree felony, and indecency with a child/sexual contact, a second-degree felony. The child is a family member.

1150: Kenneth Seidens

Child Endangerment, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Battery

Kenneth Seidens is a city councilman in Alta Vista, Kansas. He is listed as a council member on the city’s website on September 19, 2023 even though he has been arrested for child sex crimes in early August. He was a deacon at Alta Vista High View Church, but he is no longer serving there. He was charged with aggravated sexual battery, aggravated criminal sodomy, contributing to a child’s misconduct, and distributing marijuana.

1146: Miracle Meadows

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Abuse, Child Endangerment, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Coercion, Custodial Negligence, Organizational Cover-Up, Rape, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct, Sexual Torture

Miracle Meadows was a boarding school for troubled youth in Salem, West Virginia. It was under the aegis of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Founded in 1988, it operated until it was closed down in 2014.

A desperate student drank a cleaning product, was taken to the hospital where she begged for help. An investigation into the school began and the school’s education status was revoked.