Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Robert Lookingbill is a Town Commissioner of Thurmont, Maryland. He remains listed as a commissioner despite his April arrest for sexual abuse of a minor. According to the Sheriff’s Office he is alleged to have inappropriately touched a child on the bus he was driving.
John Goodrich was a dentist and bishop of the Church of Latter-Day Saints (LDS.) He made a public confession to sexually assaulting his daughter in his church. He was excommunicated. Following his confession, his daugher and her mother made a complaint alleging years of sexual abuse to police in Idaho in 2016. However, his “spiritual confession” could not be used in court and the police did nothing.
However, he is alleged to have sexually assaulted her on a 1999 field trip when she was thirteen. The trip was to Washington, DC, and to Williamsburg, VA, where the famous Colonial Williamsburg draws hundreds of field trips each year. It was in Virginia where Goodrich was finally indicted.
Corey Botelho was a Jefferson County deputy sheriff. As the owner of a security firm Tri-Force Tactical, he was a board member of the area Chamber of Commerce. A soccer coach, he was also a board member of the United Vallely Soccer Association. He is the former president of the Clarion Rifle and Pistol Club. Check out the creepy account for his business Tri-Force Tactical on the site formerly known as Twitter. This well-known “community leader” has been charged with repeatedly raping a child since she was eight until she was fifteen. In December, he again tried to abuse her and she stopped him. He faces 79 charges.
Bradley Nash is the former mayor of Salem, Missouri. (He won with 93% of the vote in 2020.) He was also the Dent Co. fire chief and emergency manager until just before his arrest for child molestation and sodomy.
Shawn Gooden was a bishop with the Mormon church and a member of the executive board of the New Birth of Freedom Boy Scouts. He was a lawyer in Harrisburg, PA. He was also an adjunct professor at Widener University Commonwealth Law School. That was all before he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a young relative in Virginia and was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison.
Mark Rivera was a pastor at Christ Our Light Anglican Church, in Big Rock, Illinois when he sexually abused a nine-year-old girl who was a member of his church. The abuse spanned two years, 2018 to 2019 He was originally charged with twenty-nine counts but they were cut down to three and he was convicted in a bench trial on two counts of predatory criminal sexual assault and a charge of criminal sexual abuse.
William Gleason of Toms River, NJ, was head of the South Toms River Recreation Commission and a former Toms River councilman. He was also a foster parent. Then he was accused of sexual abusing one of his foster children. He was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child under age 13, aggravated sexual assault of a child between the ages of 13 and 16, sexual assault of a victim more than four years younger than him, aggravated criminal sexual contact, and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
Robert Stahn founded Wellspring Counseling Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. One of his specialties is counseling trauma victims, including sexual abuse trauma. So it was ironic that he pleaded guilty to sexual abusing vulnerable women who were under his counseling supervision.
Justin Bradley Durham is a former Sheriffs Deputy in Phelps County, Missouri. He was arrested and charged with sexually exploiting two minor girls and recording it, creating and possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material. He was also charged with altering and destroying records to try to cover up his crimes.
Christopher M. Pruitt pastored a small congregation out of his Beaverton home until it recently moved to North Portland. Allegedly, he touched two girls without their consent on September 29th. He was arrested six days later on October 5, 2023.