Organizational Cover-Up – Page 2 – Republican Sexual Predators

1251: Rhett Hintze

Organizational Cover-Up

February 17, 2024Cajsa LilliehookLeave a comment

Rhett Hintze was the COO at Bravo Group, a lobbying and marketing firm. He was also a stake president for several LDS churches in Pennsylvania, including where Shawn Gooden was a church leader. He has been charged with knowing about Gooden’s assaults and not reporting them. His church position makes him a mandatory reporter, obligated to report abuse. The LDS church, after similar cases in other states, has taken the position that church leaders are prohibited from reporting. Their position is that “everything that President Hintze did was fully approved by the church.”

1244: Rand York

Organizational Cover-Up

January 26, 2024Cajsa LilliehookLeave a comment

Rev. Rand York is a priest of Church of Our Light Anglican (COLA0. He is the Republican precinct committee person for Big Rock 2 precinct in Kane County, Illinois. He was a mentor to Mark Rivera who raped so many children. When the mother of the nine-year-old girl whom Rivera sexually abused learned what happened to her daughter, she reached out to York, her great=uncle who officiated at her wedding, seeking help and support. Later, another victim who was his own goddaughter told him Rivera raped her and he again stood with Rivera, attempting an organizational coverup.

1237: Steven Smith

Organizational Cover-Up

January 18, 2024Cajsa LilliehookLeave a comment

Dr. Steven Smith is the lead pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. IBC is a member of the conservative Southern Baptist Conference and the author of several books. He is also accused of an organizational cover-up, not even informing the congregation why Patrick Andrew Miller left his job at IBC.

1220: Justin Wells

Organizational Cover-Up, Retaliation, Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment

December 30, 2023Cajsa LilliehookLeave a comment

Justin Wells was the producer for Tucker Carlson’s FOX News program and, reportedly, his ‘right-hand man.’ He was fired along with Carlson in April, 2023, and is producing Carlson’s current shows. He and FOX News have been sued by a former producer, Andrew Delancey, under New York’s law temporarily lifting the statute of limitations on sexual assault lawsuits. The alleged sexual assaults, harassment, and retaliation happened in 2008.

1202: Ted Suhl

Organizational Cover-Up

November 17, 2023Cajsa LilliehookLeave a comment

Ted Suhl is a health services executive who was convicted of bribing a state official to increase his Medicaid payments and sentenced to seven years in prison. His sentence was commuted by President Trump. He was the owner of Lord’s Ranch, a faith-based residential child-care facility. At least eight former residents are suing him alleging widespread, systemic physical and sexual abuse at the camp, abuse they claim Suhl was aware of and covered up.

1191: Newt Crenshaw

Organizational Cover-Up

November 3, 2023Cajsa LilliehookLeave a comment

Newton Crenshaw is the President and CEO of Young Life Ministries, a ministry with nearly a half billion in receipts and over a third of a billion in assets. It has been sued by people alleging they were sexually abused or harassed by Young Life employees and the response has been to cover up rather than root out the problem.

1163: Jeff Jones

Organizational Cover-Up

September 23, 2023Cajsa LilliehookLeave a comment

Jeff Jones is the sheriff in Monroe County, West Virginia. He hired a deputy who has been accused of soliciting nude pictures from a minor. An investigation was begun into the deputy who has resigned, however, investigators claim Jeff Jones has interfered with their investigation.

1159: Alan Placa

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up

September 22, 2023Cajsa LilliehookLeave a comment

Alan Placa was Rudy Giuliani’s fraternity mate and has been his close friend ever since. He has been accused by two men of molesting them. When Placa was suspended after the first accusation, Giuliani pronounced his innocence and hire him at his firm, Giuliani Partners where he continues to work.

1146: Miracle Meadows

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Abuse, Child Endangerment, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Coercion, Custodial Negligence, Organizational Cover-Up, Rape, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct, Sexual Torture

September 18, 2023Cajsa LilliehookLeave a comment

Miracle Meadows was a boarding school for troubled youth in Salem, West Virginia. It was under the aegis of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Founded in 1988, it operated until it was closed down in 2014.

A desperate student drank a cleaning product, was taken to the hospital where she begged for help. An investigation into the school began and the school’s education status was revoked.

1103: Steve Morgan

Child Rape, Organizational Cover-Up

July 11, 2023Cajsa LilliehookLeave a comment

Steve Morgan is the lead pastor at Joshua Church in Austin, Texas. He founded The Network, a collaboration of evangelical charismatic churches. Before that, though, he was convicted of raping a fifteen-year-old boy.

He was convicted in 1986. He served his time.

He was convicted in 1986. He was offered diversion, a way to get a clean criminal record. .

But he never divulged his history to his congregation. He could tell this story as one of redemption through faith, but instead he hid it from people who brought their children to church with them.