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1027: Milton Martin III

Child Indecency, Child Rape

Milton Martin III was the pastor of the First Pentacostal Church in Chalmette, LA. In March, 2023, he was arrested for raping a child “on multiple occasions” between 2010 and 2013. The victim was between the ages of fourteen and seventeen. He was charged with sexual battery and carnal knowledge of a juvenile.

In April, 2023, he was arrested again after another victim came forward alleging they were raped by Martin in 1991. He was charged with indecent behavior with a juvenile.

1024: Dennis W. Laferty

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Battery

Dennis Wayne Laferty has been a United Methodist pastor at six churches in Ohio since 2014. That may seem like a lot but five were part-time so it is not an indication of problem pastors being relocated. In March 2023, he was indicted sexually abusing one or more victims. The indictment is for five counts of sexual battery (felony), one count of gross sexual imposition with a victim under 13 (felony) , and one count of sexual imposition with a victim 13 or older but under 16 (misdemeanor). This is alleged to have happened between Nov. 30, 2019, and Jan. 30, 2023.

1019: Jeffrey Bedwell

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Grooming

Jeffrey Bedwell was a pastor at Chets Creek Church in Jacksonville, Florida. He was arrested in 2021, accused of grooming and sexually assaulting a child since she was twelve until she was seventeen. He got to know her when she was twelve and began seriously grooming her when she was thirteen. When she was fourteen, he began raping her. He raped her until she was seventeen.

1017: Anastasia Dawson

Child Abuse, Child Endangerment, Child Molestation, Child Rape

Anastasia Dawson was a ward youth leader at an LDS church in Hamilton, Missouri. In February, 2023, she was charged with seven felony sexual abuse crimes involving a sixteen-year-old minor. She has been charged with 2nd degree statutory sodomy, 2nd degree statutory rape, abuse or neglect of a child, 1st degree endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of 4th degree child molestation.

1014: Stephen Arthur Morris

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Grooming, Solicitation of a Minor

Stephen Arthur Morris was the pastor of Oliver’s Grove Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist conservative church. In July 2019, he was arrested and charged with raping a thirteen-year-old girl who attended his church. She reported this when she was eighteen. In October 2019, two additional women came forward to report his attempts to abuse them when they were minors. In 2020, they also charged him with possessing child sexual abuse materials after searching his electronics.

1: Donald Trump

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Indecency, Child Rape, Coercion, Improper Conduct or Comments, Rape, Rape Culture, Retaliation, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct

Donald Trump was the 45th president of the United States. He is also a serial sexual predator. He was found guilty of sexual assault in 2023. Twenty-six women have accused him of sexual assault. Trump claimed that he could sexually assault women without consequence in an Access Hollywood interview.

989: Alexander Nicholson

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Alexander Nicholson was a Sheriff’s Deputy in Onandaga County, New York. In 2011, he was sentenced two two years in state prison in a plea deal that allowed him to plead guilty to one count of abusing his authority as a law enforcement officer to engage in a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old boy. That was significantly less then the 36 counts of using his authority to sexually abuse two underage boys.

He reoffended.

981: Aaron Mitchell

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Kidnapping

Aaron Mitchell was a Customs and Border Protection officer in Arizona when he was arrested in April 2022 for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a fifteen-year-old girl. According to the police, Mitchell approached a girl walking to school. He was wearing a tactical vest that identified him as a CBP officer. He asked her for her documentation. After she gave it to him, he told her he was taking her to the police station. Instead, he took her to an apartment complex where he raped her.

979: Rafael Cuevas

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery

Rafael Cuevas was the pastor of Temple of Prayer Assembly of God church, a church his father built with his own hands. In 2021, he was arrested and charged with sexually abusing a child under the age of twelve from 2017 to 2020. His official charges were two counts of sexual battery and six counts of lewd and lascivious molestation against a victim under 12 years old.