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1043: Jeffery York

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Child Rape

Jeffery York was a pastor at New Beginnings Community Church of the Nazarene, in Central California . It is a conservative church. Focus on the Family, a prominent anti-gay organization, was founded by James Dobson, a member of the Church of the Nazarene, though at a different church. In March, 2023, he was arrested for child molestation and sexual abuse. It is alleged he abused a child between 2005 and 2008.

932: Malo “Victor” Monteiro

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Grooming

Malo “Victor” Monteiro was youth pastor at Faith Baptist Church in Wildomar, California, and assistant pastor at Menifee Baptist Church in Menifee, California. He was arrested in 2018 on suspicion of molesting children over an eighteen-year period and charged with seven felony counts: intent to commit rape, mayhem or sodomy, lewd and lascivious acts with force on a child under 14, lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14, distributing harmful matter and sexual penetration by force.

921: Dustin Colony-Herrera

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Abuse

Dustin Colony-Herrera was the youth pastor at Yucaipa Christian Church in San Bernadino County, California back in 2004 when the first allegations of child sexual abuse were made. Meanwhile, he lived over the county line in Riverside County where some of the abuse is said to have occurred. So, some of the abuse was reported in one county and some in another and due to that, investigators had no idea of the scope of his abuse. To make things worse, when they began investigating, he moved to Medford, Oregon, and didn’t show up for his court date.

889: David DePape

Child Abuse, Child Molestation

David DePape is more widely known as the man who attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer after breaking into the Pelosi home looking for Nancy. However, his stepdaughter came forward claiming he is a monster who abused her and her brothers physically and sexually.

877: Leticia McCormack

Murder

Leticia McCormack was an elder and, soon-to-be-ordained at The Rock Church, an anti-gay archconservative FourSquare Evangelical church in San Diego. She and her parents were charged with child abuse and the murder of her adopted daughter. McCormack’s husband killed himself when sheriff deputies’ contacted him.

837: Peter Thiel

Rape Culture

Peter Thiel is the founder of PayPal. In 1995, he co-wrote a book with David O. Sacks where they summed up date rape as “seductions that are later regretted.” It’s called “The Diversity Myth” and is an argument against diversity and speech codes and efforts to mitigate white supremacy.

815: Gary Busey

Sexual Battery, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct

Gary Busey is an Oscar-nominated actor perhaps most famous now for his turn on Celebrity Apprentice and his vocal support for Donald Trump. In 2022, he allegedly sexual assaulted three women at a Monster Mania convention.

He was arrested and charged with two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, one count of criminal attempt/criminal sexual contact and one count of harassment.

777: Salvatore J. Cordileone

Organizational Cover-Up

Cordileone remains the only California bishop yet to release an internal list of priests “credibly accused” of sexually abusing children. In fact, he has refused to publish the names of identified pedophiles in the Archdiocese, instead listing priests in “good standing.” This is not twenty years ago. He is still protecting pedophile priests in 2022.