Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Samuel Rappylee Bateman leads a Fundamentalist Mormon cult that practices polygamy. He has twenty wives, including a nine-year-old wife. The FBI believes one of his wives his own daughter. He was arrested in December 2022 and was not released on bond as he is perceived as a flight risk.
Angie Woodward operated Trinity Teen Solutions, a Christian boarding camp for unruly children. Twenty-five former students filed a class-action lawsuit alleging they were not provided the residential counseling and treatment but instead were forced to work ten to twelve hours a day doing farm labor on the board camp ranch, for other ranches, at churches, and even at a coffee shop.
Julio Sandoval is the former dean of Agape Boarding School, a place that claimed to provide guidance and education to unruly boys by providing structure and discipline. Agape closed down in January, long after it should have been closed. Sandoval has been charged with transporting a child against his will from California to Missouri. While he was dean, children were abused and psychologically tortured according to former students. Even predators who sexually abused children were kept on staff.
Andrew Tate is an avid Trump advocate, a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom, he moved to Romania because rape laws are more lenient there, according to him. He’s been accused of rape and trafficking and has been arrested for trafficking 75 women, forcing them to create pornographic content or perform phone sex. His is currently detained in Romania.
Gisela Castro Medina was the Chair of the College Republicans at St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 2021, she was arrested for underage sex trafficking. She was accused of helping Anton Lazzaro recruit and traffick minors for sex.
Anton Lazzaro was a GOP strategist and campaign manager in Minnesota. He founded Big Tent Republicans PAC. He was also an occasional FOX News guest. In 2021, he was indicted on five counts of sex trafficking of a minor, one count of attempting to do so, and three counts of obstruction of justice.
Circle of Hope was bad enough for authorities to step in after even the Householder’s children affirmed the complaints of former students. Boyd Householder was arrested and charged with 79 felonies, including child molestation, sodomy, sexual contact with a student and neglect of a child. Stephanie Householder was indicted with 22 felonies including child abuse, neglect, and endangerment. This is for incidents over the three years from 2017 to 2020, though Circle of Hope operated much longer.
Chad Michael Salsman was elected as District Attorney. He was an active volunteer at his church. A Republican, he had been a defense attorney. In 2019, he forced some of his clients to trade sex for legal representation. He was charged with sexual assault, indecent assault, witness intimidation, obstruction of justice, and promoting prostitution.
Joel Greenberg was the Seminole County Tax Collector in Florida. He was endorsed by Roger Stone and was a close confidant of Matt Gaetz. Together they were habitués of the party circuit in Florida and D.C. In 2020, Greenberg was arrested, indicted with 33 criminal counts from sex trafficking, stalking, fraud, and sex trafficking a minor. He cooperated with investigators pursuing other parties. He pleaded guilty to sex felonies, including sex trafficking a minor, in a plea deal.
Matt Gaetz is a current U.S. representative and a former Florida state representative representing the district where the dystopian planned-senior-community The Villages is located. He has been accused of creating a sex game where points are awarded for sleeping with women. He has also been accused of trafficking a minor child, paying her for sex with money, drugs, and alcohol.