Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
John William Lovelace was the pastor at Faith Baptist Church in Ayden, North Carolina. In a joint investigation, Winterville Police four counts of 2nd degree forcible sex and three counts of sexual battery while Pitt County Sheriff’s office charged him with two counts of statutory sex offense with a child less than 15 and indecent liberties with a minor. Bail was set at $12.4 million.
Pete Newman was a Camp Director at Camp Kanakuk, a Christian children’s camp in Branson, Missouri. Over the years, he abused his position to sexually abuse dozens of boys, some as young as nine. He pleaded guilty to sexually abusing six boys, but admitted to abusing at lead 13 more. The prosecutor estimated the actual number could be in the hundreds.
Terry Peters was a Arizona Republican donor. His wife, Mary Peters, was Bush’s Transportation Secretary. In 2012, when he was 66, he was arrested for repeatedly raping a seven-year-old girl. The girl told her mother that he raped her several times from 2009 to 2010 when she was just seven.
Neil Gardner was the Highway Superintendent in Stephentown, New York. In March, 2022, he settled with a woman who sued under New York’s Child Victims Act. The woman claimed he sexually abused her from the age of twelve and that he took explicit photos of her “that he would brag about and sell.” A second woman came forward with a similar experience of being repeatedly raped as a child.
John J, Griffin was a producer for CNN from Connecticut when he was arrested by the FBI for persuading mothers to bring their very young daughters to him for sadomasochistic sex. This was purportedly to train them to be docile and submissive wives.
Jeremy Filbert was the mayor of Mitchellville, Iowa. In 2014, he ran for Iowa State Senate but lost the Republican primary. In April, 2015, he resigned as mayor and moved to Kansas City, Kansas, to take a job where he was soon arrested rape and aggravated sodomy of a child under thirteen, his half-sister.
Gary Clark is the former Mayor of Zillah, Washington and an officer of the Yakima County Republicans. He was the mayor for a decade in the 80s into the 90s and then again from 2004 to 2017. He was arrested in March, 2021 and charged with one count of rape of a child and indecent exposure. His victim was 4 years old. There is a witness to the sex act and video evidence of him exposing himself to the child.
In January, 2022, the news broke that he was being investigated for the sexual abuse of a young girl beginning when she was fourteen and continuing for twelve years. The abuse is alleged to have started when she attended his church and the associated school where he was a gym teacher. When the girl turned 18, she married Chatfield’s brother and the relationship between Chatfield and his sister-in-law continued until 2021 when she went to the police.
David Smock has been accused of sexually assaulting boys and covering up the physical abuse of students by other staff members. He was a fugitive for a while before being arrested in Arkansas. He has been charged in two separate counties for thirteen felonies including sexual assaulting minor boys.
Jack Strain was the Sheriff of St. Tammany Parish in Louisiana. He was elected in 1995 as a Democrat but switched to the GOP in 2003. In 2015, he was defeated in an election for his sixth term. He was accused of raping four boys. There were five victims. He was convicted two counts of aggravated incest, four counts of aggravated rape, misconduct with a child, and sexual battery. Other victims contacted the prosecutor but were not needed for the trial. Strain asked judge to set aside the conviction, but that did not happen. He was sentenced to four life sentences with no parole.