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Republican Grooming (58 instances)

1072: Erickson Lee

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Endangerment, Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Grooming, Sexual Battery
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Erickson Lee was a police officer in Cornelius, South Carolina, and a youth leader at Morningstar Ministries, leading their Young Special Forces. Lee started the program and ran it. That was where he allegedly met and groomed the boys. He invited him to his home, provided alcohol, showed them pornographic movies and touched them without consent, according to the police. The boys were from 14 to 17 years old.

1066: John Brownlow

Child Endangerment, Child Indecency, Grooming, Nonconsensual Recording, Secret Photos or Recordings, Sexual Misconduct, Solicitation of a Minor, Stalking/Harassment
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John Brownlow is the former Chief Financial Office of Westminster Academy, a school that follows the theology of Doug Wilson. He was arrested for stalking a minor online and in person, going so far as to break into his home to spy on his and get unlawful images of him. He would persuade the boy to engage in a sexual activity and then record it without his knowledge. This went on from 2020 to 2022.

1042: Nick Johnson

Abuse of Power or Authority, Assault, Child Molestation, Grooming, Organizational Cover-Up, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery, Sexual Misconduct, Solicitation of a Minor
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Nick Johnson was the track coach at Huntington University, a conservative evangelical school in Huntington, Indiana. The track team excelled and won national championships and other recognition. However, there was an extensive record of sexual abuse and the use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs)

1019: Jeffrey Bedwell

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Grooming
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Jeffrey Bedwell was a pastor at Chets Creek Church in Jacksonville, Florida. He was arrested in 2021, accused of grooming and sexually assaulting a child since she was twelve until she was seventeen. He got to know her when she was twelve and began seriously grooming her when she was thirteen. When she was fourteen, he began raping her. He raped her until she was seventeen.

1018: Frank Pavone

Grooming, Sexual Battery, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct
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Frank Pavone founded Priests for Life, an anti-abortion group, and chaired Catholics for Trump. The Vatican laicized or defrocked him without appeal for blasphemous communications on social media and disobedience of his bishop. He placed an aborted fetus on the altar and made a video. He is also an election denier.

1014: Stephen Arthur Morris

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Grooming, Solicitation of a Minor
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Stephen Arthur Morris was the pastor of Oliver’s Grove Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist conservative church. In July 2019, he was arrested and charged with raping a thirteen-year-old girl who attended his church. She reported this when she was eighteen. In October 2019, two additional women came forward to report his attempts to abuse them when they were minors. In 2020, they also charged him with possessing child sexual abuse materials after searching his electronics.

944: Brian Pounds

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Grooming, Menacing
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Brian Pounds was a minister at First Assembly of God in Vernon, Texas. He was arrested in 2021 after the mother of a fifteen-year-old girl took her to the police where she reported that Pounds had been providing her with meth and sexually abusing her, including choking her one time.