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Republican Solicitation of a Minor (115 instances)

770: Brad Graven

Solicitation of a Minor
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Brad Graven is a former Moultrie County board member and he was an active volunteer for Illinois Rep. Mary Miller’s campaign. He not only collected signatures, he was given access to her legislative vehicle and drove her to meetings and events.

Miller was convicted of soliciting a minor. He was sentenced to two years’ probation and 40 days in the DuPage County Jail. He had arranged to meet with someone he thought was a teenage boy for sex, but he actually met a police officer.

Ironically, a frequent statement in Rep. Miller’s speeches is that people’s character is known by who they hang around with

759: John Gray

Solicitation of a Minor
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John Gray was the president of the Goshen, Ohio, school board when he was caught in a Predator Catchers Muncie sting. He had served five terms on the school board. He showed up in Farmland, Indiana to meet who he thought would be an eleven-year-old girl. He was charged with soliciting a minor.

746: Carter Clinton Ballman

Child Sexual Abuse Material, Solicitation of a Minor
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Carter Clinton Ballman was a Republican legislative aide in Missouri. He worked several years for Republican Rep. Mark Matthiesen. He was fired shortly after he was arrested in an undercover sting with a police officer pretending to be a 14-year-old girl. He was charged with soliciting a minor and attempted receipt of child sexual abuse…

741: Gregory Nies

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Solicitation of a Minor
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Gregory Nies was on the town council and three-time mayoral candidate. He was well-liked and active in the community. However, he was also preying on children. In 2009, a girl went to the police and told them she had been sent inappropriate messages from someone posing as an 18-year-old woman. The police investigated, found the IP traced back to Nies. A search warrant revealed he had been communicating with several minor girls, posing as a young girl himself to persuade them to send him nude photos. His computer also had child sexual abuse material. They also discovered he was sexually abusing a young girl.

736: Cary Rhodes

Solicitation of a Minor
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Cary Rhodes was the mayor of Taylorsville, Georgia. He was also the chief financial officer and secretary of the Taylorsville Baptist Church. He also managed to get caught in an FBI undercover child sex sting when he replied to a Craigslist ad. He was charged with attempted aggravated child molestation and violating the Computer Pornography and Child Exploitation Act. He agreed to a plea deal that resulted in two years in prison and ten years probation, considerably less time than most people in that situation get.

730: Alejandro Carmona-Fonseca

Child Indecency, Solicitation of a Minor
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Alejandro Carmona-Fonseca was a deputy on the Jacksonville Sheriff’s office. A teen boy met Carmona at a gym and connected with him on Snapchat in the expectation that Carmona would give him workout advice, which he initially did. He began requesting photos of the teen without his shirt and then he began sending explicit pictures of himself.

710: Kenneth Lewis Barrett

Solicitation of a Minor
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Kenneth Lewis Barrett was the Republican mayor of Winston, Oregon. He was caught in one of those stings where police officers pretend to be a minor child on Facebook. He thought he was arranging to meet a 14-year-old girl for sex, but was instead arrested. When arrested, he was charged with online sexual corruption of a minor. he was also charged with unlawful possession and concealment of firearms.

709: Donald Marceau McLeod

Child Indecency, Solicitation of a Minor
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Donald Marceau McLeod was the Mayor of Severance, Colorado. He resigned after an anonymous tip was called in reporting that a child was dragged into a white van and may have been taken hostage. The van was owned by McLeod. The child was someone he met on Grindr who initially said he was 19, but he confessed he was just 17, a minor. He was arrested and charged with patronizing a prostituted child. He pleaded guilty to promoting obscenity to a child and got three years probation and must register as a sex offender.