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12: Tom Shortridge

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Tom Shortridge was a Republican campaign consultant who, to put it bluntly, was not a nice person. For example, in 1998 he supported a primary candidate running against a woman who had been shot and said “Since when does being a victim qualify you for the legislature.” LA Times: Man Denies Guilt in Pornography Case

9: Nicholas Morency

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Nicholas Morency is an anti-abortion extremist who offered $1.5 million reward to murder abortion providers. He specifically targeted a Kansas physician by initials and mentioned groups like NARAL and Planned Parenthood. He posted notices on abortion bulletin boards directing people to his site. He pled guilty to intimidating people who provided reproductive health services. It…

720: Stephen Bates

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Stephen Bates, until recently, was the pastor of the Bible Baptist Church. In that position, he endorsed Ted Cruz in 2015. According to investigators, he used the computer at that church parsonage to look at child pornography. When they arrested him, he was carrying two USB drives with child porn, videos portraying sex acts with…

704: Dennis Perkins

Child Abuse, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Rape

Dennis Perkins, 45, is facing 150 felony charges that allege rape, child pornography, sexual battery of a child, and video voyeurism. His wife, Cynthia Perkins, and former lover, Melanie Curtin, have already pleaded guilty to various crimes they committed with Perkins. Perkins is a former Sheriff’s lieutenant and head of the Livingston Parish SWAT team…

58: Tom Adams

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Former Lake County GOP Chairman and Green Oaks Mayor Tom Adams was sentenced in a plea deal to possession of child pornography, dropping the charges for distribution of child pornography. He was sentenced to 30 intermittent days in the county work-release program, a $10,000 fine, psychological treatment, and 200 hours of community service. This was…

50: Randall Casseday

Child Sexual Abuse Material, Solicitation of a Minor

Randall Casseday was the Human Resources Director for the rightwing newspaper The Washington Times. The Washington Times claims “The Washington Times is the only newspaper where the moral issues of family and faith are proudly reported on the front page on a regular basis” Casseday was arrested in an undercover sting. He thought he was…

52: Larry Dale Floyd

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

A former Denton County Constable, Larry Dale Floyd was charged with soliciting sex with a minor child and child pornography. He pleaded guilty to three charges of enticing a minor in an agreement that dropped an additional six charges against him. He was a constable when he drove to Colorado to meet with a mother…

678: Aaron Bruns

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Considering Pizzagate, it is ironic that the FOX News producer who covered Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was arrested and convicted of child pornography. The police found pictures and videos of children under the age of ten being sexually abused by adults. This was his second arrest for child porn. Ten years earlier, while in college…

680: George Christian Ortloff

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

New York Republican Assemblyman George Christian Ortloff was arrested in a sting operation where he thought he was meeting to have sex with 11 and 12 year-old sisters. Instead he met with an FBI agent undercover as their mother. He told the agent about prior victims going back several years, including a 12-year-old girl and…

681: Robert R. Groezinger

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Robert R. Groezinger was an aide to New York State Senator Serphin R. Maltese, a Republican State Senator in New York. He was arrested and found with 25 images of child pornography, not counting the dozens more he deleted. Police computer specialists recovered at least 40 more pornographic images of children. He was sentenced to…