Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Kenneth Baker was the youth pastor at the First Baptist Church of Ashland, Oregon. He was accused of sexually abusing a child he knew through the church from 2006 and 2011. The abuse began when she was thirteen.
Michael Paul Keech was a youth pastor at Saluda River Baptist Church in West Columbia, South Carolina. He began working there in 2019 and was fired in 2021 when a new pastor took over. Within two weeks of the new pastor taking over, Keech was fired. He said “there were some thing that were in the personnel file that I found to not being conducive of the personality and character of someone serving in the ministry. So we fired him.”
Jonathan Mark Myers was a youth pastor and principal of a parochial school associated with the same church in Edinburgh, Indiana. As principal, he pursued an inappropriate relationship with a young girl. He gave her rides to and from church and began grooming her. Eventually, he began sexually abusing her.
Stephen Parshall is one of the Boogaloo Bois and was part of a plot to create terror during the George Floyd and anti-lockdown protests. His stepdaughter alleged she was sexually abused by Parshall and one of his associates. When he was arrested, they found child sex abuse material on his phone. They found text conversations with a child under 18 whom he persuaded to send him explicit photos.
Warren Jeffs is the leader of a reactionary Mormon cult that defies the official church by continuing to practice polygamy. He raped multiple children, fathered children by children, and married several children. Twenty-four of his 78 marriages were to children under seventeen. One was as young as twelve.
August Kreis was a leader of the Aryan Nation. He was convicted in 2015 of sexually assaulting three underage girls and giving them obscene materials. The mother of one of the victims filed a report with the police who discovered he had sexually assaulted the victim for about three months. All three victims testified against Kreis, detailing the several assaults he committed against them.
Michael Scott Geiger is a white nationalist, a member of Aryan Brotherhood and a child predator who kidnapped, raped, and murdered a two-year-old child in Enid, Oklahoma.
Joel Koskan was a Republican candidate for the South Dakota state senate in 2022. He was arrested in 2022 for grooming and raping a minor child who was a member of his family. It is alleged that he began grooming her as a young child. When she was 14, at bible camp, counselors discussed inappropriate touching and she told them about Koskan. A social worker was sent to do an interview but she did not cooperate. That was when he began to molest her. This continued for five years until she was 19. He was able to maintain control via surveillance cameras and GPS monitoring, limiting her social connections, even able to control her after she went away to school.
Kenneth Daniel was the pastor of First Baptist Church in Chalkville, Alabama. After the Southern Baptist Convention released the SBC Sexual Abuse Task Force report in May 2022, he wrote, “I have served on staff in churches within the SBC over 38 years. I agree … this is tragic to victims and heartbreaking. Cases needed to be investigated. My question is about … releasing more information than necessary. … There is sexual misconduct in every profession, even churches. How do churches benefit from over exposure of poor leadership? Churches are struggling to keep doors open. How are we to evangelize and bring people to Christ?”
He was also a child molester. When one of his victims reported that he sexually abused and assaulted her, the International Mission Board investigated and sustained her allegation, yet they did not report him to the police and it did not affect his career since he went on to work for the Southern Baptist Convention in Alabama.