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Republican Solicitation of a Minor (115 instances)

1308: Barry Fike

Solicitation of a Minor
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Barry Fike was a pastor at Fillmore Church of Christ and taught at Oaks Christian High School and Pepperdine University. He was arrested in July 2023 after being caught in a sting with a law enforcement officer posing as an underage girl. He sent lewd photos of himself and had sexual online conversations with someone he believed was a minor and arranged to meet for sex. He was charged with felony communicating with a child with the intent to commit a sexual act, and arranging a meeting with a minor for a lewd purpose. Fike. He pleaded not guilty at the time.

1307: Bill Lunn

Solicitation of a Minor
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Bill Lunn was the Emmy=winning news director at WTBS in Shrevesport, Louisiana. He has resigned after local police initiated an investigation into him for soliciting a minor. Some young men in Shreveport created a fake online profile of a 15-year-old girl and after exchanging text with Lunn, arranged a meeting for sex.

1297: Seth Waxman

Solicitation of a Minor
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Seth Waxman was the city of Mason, Michigan Planning Commission Vice-President. While not a big-time donor, all of his political contributions at the state and federal level were to Republicans. He was charged with child solicitation, possession of a controlled substance, and legend drug deception (having a prescription drug in possession without a prescription.) It was Viagra. He went to Indiana to meet with a decoy in an internet-sting. He believed he was meeting a 13-year-old girl.

1270: Luis Borunda

Child Sexual Abuse Material, Solicitation of a Minor
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Luis Borunda served as Deputy Secretary of State under Republican Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland. In August, 2023, he was arrested by state police for soliciting a minor in an internet sting. The subsequent investigation led to him also being charged federally with possession and distribution of Child Sexual Abuse Material.

1249: Micah Whitfield

Child Molestation, Grooming, Solicitation of a Minor
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Micah Whitfield was the technical director of the Arend Arts Center and an employee of Bentonville Schools in Arkansas. He was also on the board of directors of Campfire Ministries local, which has been inactive in recent years. He was arrested for the sexual assault of a high school student.

1248: Joe Hawkins

Child Sexual Abuse Material, Solicitation of a Minor
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Gary Joseph Hawkins is a Utah firefighter. He is on administrative leave. He was caught in an undercover child exploitation sting, arrested, and is being held without bail due to his position of trust in the community posing a risk and to his possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material of children he knows.

1246: Cole Carter

Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Grooming, Solicitation of a Minor
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John Cole Carter was a firefighter in Wetumka, Alabama. In June, 2023, he pleaded guilty to transmitting obscene material, possession of child pornography, second-degree sex abuse, electronic solicitation of a child, and enticing a child for immoral purposes.

1233: Vance Peronto

Grooming, Solicitation of a Minor
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Vance Peronto was a state trooper in Alaska. He pulled over a sixteen-year-old girl for driving without her headlights on on April 8, 2018. He didn’t give her a ticket. Later on, he contacted her on social media and began grooming her. On April 26th, the Alaska State Troopers were informed by her father that Peronto had inappropriate contact with the teen.