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Republican Child Rape (268 instances)

194: C. J. Mahaney

Child Abuse, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Organizational Cover-Up
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C. J. Mahaney co-founded the Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, MD with Larry Tomczak in 1982 Tomczak left in 1997 leaving Mahaney at the top. It was a successful megachurch that grew into a religious conglomerate known as Sovereign Grace Ministries. SGM formed churches all over the US, as well as in Mexico and the Philippines. That had 28,000 members around the world.

A three-year-old girl was rapped by a 15-year-old boy who was babysitting her during a church activity. When her family went to the police, the pastors intervened pressuring the family to forgive the rapist and let it go. After two years of pressure, the girl’s family quit the church. That was the first known occasion of the church organizing a cover-up. The mother wrote it up in a blog post for SGM Survivors, where until then people talked more about how controlling the community was. Her post opened the floodgates.

There are several cases of someone coming forward with an abuse allegation and being told to reconcile with the abuser. Children who reported sexual abuse by a parent were not helped but rather hurt because the church told the parent who only abused them more. There is a case of a man raping his adopted daughter. When his wife learns of this she wants a divorce and the church told her not to do it. She got out, and reported it to the police. He went to jail, but SGM lobbied for his early release and has him doing work in contact with children

176: Darrell Gilyard

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Assault
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Darrell Gilyard was a successful mega-church preacher. So famed was he, there was a film about him “The Darrell Gilyard” story that had Jerry Falwell. one of his mentors, give a testimonial saying he was one of “most brilliant men in the pulpit.”

This is all in spite of him being fired in 1991 for child molestation. His main mentor, the former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, knew but since he forgave him, he promoted his career. At least the first time.

That all ended when he was convicted of sexually molesting a 15-year-old girl. He served three years and has been released but has been barred from being in the presence of minors.

So a church hired him anyway and barred children from the church. That’s right. The convicted sex offender was chosen over the children. He is welcome, they are not.

150: Ralph Lee Aaron

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Sexual Torture
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Ralph Lee Aaron was a conservative Southern Baptist pastor at Grace Christian Fellowship Church in Covington County, Alabama. He previously served at two other churches. When he was arrested he was charged with more than 150 offenses, most involved possession of child exploitation materials. He was also charged with sodomy, sexual abuse, and sexual torture of four boys between eight and twelve years old. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four consecutive life terms.

135: Brandon Hixon

Child Molestation, Child Rape
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Brandon Hixon was a state legislator in Idaho. A ten-year-old girl told people for over a year that he was a bad man, but no one paid attention. When Hixon began dating her friend’s mother, she was afraid he would do to her friend what he had done to her so she went to her school’s counselor and police officer and told them what had happened to her. He began raping her when she was about four or five and continued until 2017. He forced her compliance and silence by threatening her brother…just in case his suicide makes you feel some pity for him.

114: Cody Wilson

Child Rape, Sexual Assault
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Cody Wilson of Texas is a gun-rights activist. He decided to short circuit the debate on regulating plastic guns by posting plans for making a gun on a 3D printer. A juvenile woman, under 17, reported to police that he had paid her to have sex and exchanged explicit photos with her. NBC News: 3D…

109: Patrick Lee McGuire

Child Molestation, Child Rape
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Patrick Lee McGuire, known as Pat McGuire, was a Flager County, FL, Republican county commissioner from 2001 to 2004. He was also the executive director of the Central Florida Police Benevolent Association until his arrest for child molestation. In 2007, he was convicted of molesting his two adopted daughters. One victim told police that McGuire…

107: Ted Klaudt

Child Molestation, Child Rape
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Ted Klaudt was a Republican state representative in South Dakota from 1999 to 2006 when he was term-limited out. He lost to the Democratic candidate when he ran for state Senate. A social conservative, he pushed bills to prohibit schools from distributing birth control and requiring doctors to inform patients considering abortion about the health…

106: Jeffrey Ray Nielsen

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Jeffrey Ray Nielson is the son of former Fountain Valley Republican mayor Ben Nielsen. Republican political connections framed his entire life. He interned for Orange County DA’s office. Then he went to work for Representative Dana Rohrabacher as an aide. Meanwhile, he pursued 12, 13, and 14-year-old boys. He was eventually arrested for molesting two…

99: Paul Williams

Child Abuse, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Incest
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Paul Williams was the minister of prayer and special projects at Bellevue Baptist Church, a Tennessee mega-church. He molested his son for 12 to 18 months before stopping and claims he has never done anything similar since. His son spoke about it as an adult which led to Williams confessing it to his pastor. Baptist…

96: Lawrence Scott Ward

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Trafficking
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Lawrence Scott Ward was an Ivy League professor at Harvard Business School and later at Wharton. He was hired by major companies as a consultant making him a rich man. He was the Chairman of the Marketing Department at University of Pennsylvania. He also founded a nonprofit called the Rebound Foundation which included faculty and students at Penn, in order to help “troubled kids.” It was easy access for Ward to exploit and abuse these kids and he took full advantage of it.