Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Matt Schlapp is the Chair of the American Conservative Union that hosts the CPAC conference. He also chairs the political action committee. In 2022, a staffer on the Herschel Walker campaign accused him of sexual battery by groping him while he drove Schlapp while Schlapp was in Georgia for the campaign.
William Ray Pruitt was the police chief of Center Hill, Florida, for about 18 months in the late 90s. It was controversial. In 2008, he ran as a Republican for the state House of Representatives. In December, 2022, he was arrested for sexually battering a 14-year-old girl and then stalking her, threatening her to prevent her from coming forward. She did not come forward for two years because she was terrified of him.
George Alexander Diaz Menges was a campaign worker for Manual Asensio, who dropped out just before the for Congressional District Three Republican primary. He was arrested in December 2022 and charged with four counts of sexual battery, two counts of aggravated battery, eight counts of battery and a charge of committing or facilitating a kidnapping.
Bill Gothard founded the Institute in Basic Life Principles which some people call a conservative Christian cult. It has very strict gender roles that circumscribe women’s lives, forbidding higher education, choosing their spouse, ordering what clothing they wear, and prohibiting cutting their hair. The Duggars are part of this ministry.
Nicholas Kelley was a youth pastor at New Bridges Church, in Lawrenceville, Georgia. He sexually abused a fourteen=year=old girl. His crime was revealed when she had a nervous breakdown and hospitalized. That is when her parents learned of the “relationship.” He confessed to the church elders the next day that he had “inappropriate physical interactions” with her.
Ronnie Lee Barron was the youth pastor at Loris Presbyterian Church, in Loris, South Carolina. He was also volunteer baseball coach at the high school. He was arrested in December 2021, accused of sexual exploitation of a minor and sexual battery. The minor was a student at Loris High School and 17 years old. Barron sexually abused the youth several times from March to June 2021. He also took nude photos and made a video of a sex act with the youth.
Michael D’Attoma was named in a lawsuit alleging he sexually abused Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2. The lawsuit also names Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the South Carolina Baptist Convention, and the Northside Baptist Church because, incredibly, D’Attoma continued as pastor at the Northside Baptist Church for six more years after the abuse was reported in 2014.
Trent Ivey was a Southern Baptist youth pastor at Vestal Baptist Church in South Knox, Tennessee. He was arrested in 2021 for sexual battery with a 16 and 18-year-old girl. He is out on bail and has a 2024 court date with deferred disposition which means he pled no contest, must meet certain obligations, and then there will be criminal conviction on his record.
Ryan Scott Walsh was a youth pastor at Gulf Breeze Methodist Church in Florida. Parents of a 13-year-old girl found inappropriate texts on her phone. They went to the church pastor who chose to handle it internally at first, until the church learned Walsh had also touched the child. Then the church went to the police.
David Lynn Richards was the pastor of My Father’s House in Lenoir City, Tennessee. When his adopted daughter was sixteen years old, she told her guidance counselor that her father put her hand down his pants. The next day she had a forensic interview and revealed he had been raping her for two years. While he denied it and said it was motivated by defiance. However, police found his seminal fluid that matched his DNA on her bed frame.