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740: Paul Reeves

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Paul Reeves was the mayor of Ashland, Kentucky. He resigned after he was charged with receiving two videos that contained child sexual abuse material. He ordered the videos from an undercover company run by postal inspectors. When they entered his home, they caught him watching a CSAM video. They began investigating Reeves when his credit card information was found on a server. He was sentenced to 42 months in prison.

738: Jack Shay

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Jack Shay was once the mayor of Ketchikan and the Ketchikan borough. He served on the school board and was even “citizen of the year.” He dropped off a computer for repair and child sexual abuse images were found. Employees are required to report this. The police were notified and he was arrested and charged with 91 counts of possession of child sexual abuse materia. He agreed to plead guilty to 7 counts of possession of CSAM and was sentenced to 35 years with 18 suspended. As he was 81 when he was sentenced in 2012, that is effectively a life sentence.

737: Mike Stoecklin

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Mike Stoecklin was the mayor of Saunemin for two terms ending in 2008. In 2010, he was under consideration for an appointment to a state Senate seat. He was also a grade school coach at Saunemin Grade School. He created child sex abuse material, taking pictures of himself with one of his students. He also sexually abused the student. Authorities said he filmed himself posed in a sexual manner while engaged in a sexual act between him and a child under the age of 18.

728: Paul Mumford

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Paul Mumford was a retired Tampa police officer, though he remained a Reserve Officer. He was arrested in 2022 for possession of more than a hundred items of CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material.) He was fired as a Reserve Officer after his arrest. Ironically, he worked on the sex crimes unit.

671: John Robert Griffin

Child Sexual Abuse Material

John Robert Griffin was a pastor at Riverbend Community Church in Ormond Beach, Florida. He also was a professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach. He was arrested for possession of child sexual abuse material. Shortly before his arrest, he asked the state to reinstate him and his wife as foster parents.

670: William Dalton Milam

Child Sexual Abuse Material

According to FDLE, they got a cybertip from the National Center for Missing Children about someone uploading images of child sexual abuse. The IP was traced to Milam’s home. He was charged with two counts of promoting sexual performance of a child and 25 counts of possession of child pornography. They found multiple devices that belonged to Milam that contained child sexual abuse material, including images as you as three engaged in sex acts.

669: Jim Watkins

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Jim Watkins is the owner of 8chan, 8kun, and 5channel. He is a conspiracy theorist and the host of QAnon, the locus of conspiracies about politicians, pedophilia, and drinking blood and adrenochrome. Mass shooters post their manifestos there. The Pizzagate conspiracy originated there.

8kun hosts child sexual exploitation domains.

For all his Q opposition to child sexual abuse, he hosted forums for sharing child sexual abuse pictures and videos. When moderators came to him concerned about material they saw, he exhibited indifference. He said there was just too much material to delete.

660: T. Denny Sanford

Child Sexual Abuse Material, Organizational Cover-Up

T. Denny Sanford is a GOP mega-donor, giving a million to Americans for Prosperity, the anti-tax group, and ten thousand here and twenty-five thousand there. He’s among the elite class of Republican donors. He’s even more influential at the state level in Arizona and South Dakota where he divides his time and his political advocacy. He is also an “implicated individual” in a child sexual abuse material investigation.

656: James Jackson

Child Sexual Abuse Material

James Jackson is a priest at St. Mary’s Catholic Parish in Providence, Rhode Island. He is also a member of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, a Catholic organization that rejected Vatican 2 and continues to preach the mass in Latin. They editorialized against Biden and against Ruth Bader Ginsburg the day after her death. He also is accused of collecting and distributing child sexual exploitation materials.

655: Jason Boyet

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Jason Boyet was a Louisiana state trooper who was convicted of distribution of child sexual abuse material. He was Trooper of the Year in 2018. A tip that he was producing and distributing child sexual exploitation material led to an investigation and, eventually, to pleading guilty to distribution.