Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
John Justin McCall was a worship leader at Grace River Community Church until he was arrested in October 11, 2023, for trying to solicit a minor online. The pastor said they did a background check and interviewed former employers. He worked at Ark Encounter, a creationist theme park
Robert William Austin, a Florida Department of Corrections chaplain, was caught in an undercover sting. Police created several false identities on social media. Austin sent messages to one of those false identities thinking he was communicating with a 14-year-old girl. He sent her explicit pictures. The day “he was arrested he happened to tell the “girl” that he was going fishing. The police worked with Fish and Wildlife, found him where he was out fishing, and arrested him there.
Kevin Ruditsky was a New Jersey police officer. At National Night Out – an event designed to foster good relations between police and the communities they serve – Ruditsky met a sixteen-year-old girl. After the event he began stalking her.
Antonio Capilupi was a high school teacher in Martin County, Florida. He solicited explicit pictures from one of the students at the high school since December 2022. Other students saw the pictures on SnapChat. He was arrested for using a computer to solicit a minor and possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material.
June brought worse problems when he was arrested for child molestation involving a twelve-year-old girl. The child molestation investigation began a week before the drug arrest. He was charged with one count each of first-degree child molestation, second-degree child molestation, and enticement of a person under the age of 16.
However, Shawn Bergstrand is a registered sex offender. He was convicted in 2014 of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor. He was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison and five years of supervised release.
His former fiancée filed a restraining order alleging violence. He denies it.
Another serious allegation was made in his home state of Indiana where he was alleged to have a student he taught at a middle school, either a sixth or seventh grader. The case was not pursued even though there were allegations from several people and despite his being fired for exposing himself to a custodian. Later a thirteen-year-old girl claimed he molested her and gave her a nude photo of himself. She showed it to several classmates. The case was dismissed because the judge excluded one of the essential witnesses.
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.
He’s also a sexual predator who searched for “good chats to meet young girls” and exchanged sexual and inappropriate messages with a girl who said she was sixteen. And Governor Abbott pledged to pardon him.
Kent Stermon was appointed the the Florida Board of Governors by Gov. Ron DeSantis, a man he helped elect and to whom he donated generously. Stermon was an influential GOP donor and active in politics without running for office. In December, 2022, he killed himself. It was rumored that it was due to an investigation of sexual misconduct.