Craig Scott Valdez was Alaska state Sen. George Rauscher’s Chief of Staff since November, 2025, and had worked for him since 2021. He was also the Chair of the Anchorage Young Republicans. He has been removed from all positions since his arrest on four felony charges involving child sexual exploitation.
Hunter Chase Eubanks was a worship leader at Morningside Church in Tallahassee, Florida. He also led a church music internship program. He used his position to pursue an illegal “sexual relationship” with a minor. In other words, to rape a minor in the church and places around the city. He also asked her to send him pictures, in essence, asking for child sexual exploitation material. He pleaded guilty to the federal charge of sexual exploitation of a child and was sentenced to seventeen years in prison. He still faces state charges.
James Fishback is a hedge fund manager who is running in the Republican primary for Florida governor, hoping to succeed Ron DeSantis. He seems to court controversy. Recently he called Rep. Byron Donalds a slave. Donalds is a Black man and one of his primary opponents. Donalds complained but Fishback said he had no right to do so because, I guess, Fishback didn’t know there was slavery in Belize, Panama, and Jamaica. He also initiated a secret relationship with a minor who he became engaged to when she became an adult. They later broke up and she has asked for injunction against him for stalking.
The court did not issue the injunction, because she was an adult when the alleged stalking occurred and there were defensible reasons for contact. However, the issue of his relationship with a minor was not litigated.
Alisha Marie George was a middle-school teacher at a STEM-focused charter school in northern Utah. She also coached volleyball. She was charged with 22 criminal charges involving the grooming and sexual abuse of a former student who has since called her a monster. Other students have come forward so there may be additional charges.
Krystal Hurd was a Sanibel, Florida, city employee who worked as a camp counselor at Sanibel Recreation Center. She was trusted with the community’s children and exploited that trust. Four of her victims have come forward and police suspect there may be more.
Matthew McGinley, a former worship pastor and Christian school teacher, has been charged with sexually assaulting a former student, a minor. He is also a songwriter, founder of Ascent Project, a Fort Collins, Colorado, church he co-founded.
He has been accused of grooming a student and having a sexual “relationship” (otherwise known as raping a minor) with a minor student (child.) The assaults continued for a year until the student cut off contact.
Joshua David Kemper was a youth pastor at Foothill Church in Coarsegold, California. He was also a virulent anti-gay and anti-trans advocate who claimed women felt unsafe in churches that welcomed gay people. That’s strange, because he was the one raping an underage child at his church. The church did well, reporting Kemper to the police. Yes, while churches around the country face scrutiny for covering up sexual abuse, this church filed a police report immediately, prompting a police investigation that resulted in Kemper’s arrest.
Silas Shelton is still listed as the pastor at Blanchester Community Ministries. He is out on $250,000 bail for an array of crimes against children including rape and sexual battery. He was indicted for abusing one child, a member of his congregation, over the course of six years but police expect that there will be other victims as that is common with most sexual predators.
Ami Medlin was a teacher at Corinth Holders High School in Wendell, North Carolina. Together with her husband, she groomed and pursued inappropriate relationships with students. Initially, the couple was charged with indecent liberties with a student, first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and sexual servitude.