Candidate – Page 2 – Republican Sexual Predators

263: Joseph Hayon

Child Sexual Abuse Material

September 28, 2022Cajsa LilliehookLeave a comment

Joseph Hayon was an anti-gay conservative activist and founder of the Brooklyn Tea Party. He ran for the New York Assembly in 2010 emphasizing family values, attacking his opponent for supporting an anti-bullying bill because it included LGBTIQ students. He ran again in 2012 in a different district, and lost again. In 2013, he ran for City Council and lost definitively. His campaign again focused on morality and family values, emphasizing a proposal to ban the sale of obscene literature and have librarians face criminal penalties if children saw porn on library computers.

He was arrested and confessed to viewing child exploitation imagery of girls from two to twelve. He was convicted of 94 counts of possession of sexual performance by a child. He was sentenced to 1.4 to 4 years per count to run concurrently.

259: Mike Krawitz

Rape Culture, Sexual Misconduct

September 27, 2022Cajsa LilliehookLeave a comment

Mike Krawitz was running for the township council of West Deptford, but dropped out after his messages to a reporter were made public by her. She reported that he had been sending messages to her for two years, including messages hoping she would be raped.

206: Chuck Hunter

Child Sexual Abuse Material, Solicitation of a Minor

September 12, 2022Cajsa LilliehookLeave a comment

Chuck Hunter was 61 and though he lost his race for Circuit Court 10 in 2010 but in 2012 he was running for Circuit Court 11. He placed an ad on Craigslist seeking someone under 30 for sex. An undercover police officer responded in the role of a 14-year-old boy. After several back-and-forth messages, Hunter arranged to meet this 14-year-old at a restaurant with the intention of having sex. He was arrested when he showed up. They got a search warrant and found him in possession of child sexual exploitation materials.

113: Eddie Frankum

Sexual Harassment

June 9, 2022Cajsa LilliehookLeave a comment

Eddie Frankum was the police chief of Pelican Bay, Texas, when he decided to run for county sheriff in another county. However, a grand jury indicted him with illegally detaining a woman and two counts of sexual harassment by touching. He was accused by two women of touching them inappropriately during arrest searches. My Plainview:…

83: Richard Gardner

Child Indecency, Child Molestation

May 16, 2022Cajsa LilliehookLeave a comment

Richard Gardner was convicted of convicted in 1988 of lewd and lascivious behavior with a child under the age of 14. Las Vegas Sun: Assembly candidate ruled ineligible due to felony.

73: Wilton Frederick Bland

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Sexual Assault

May 11, 2022Cajsa LilliehookLeave a comment

Wilton Frederick Bland ran as a Republican candidate for Mineral County Commission in West Virginia but lost about a year before he was arrested on 136 charges: 73 counts of possession of child pornography; 45 counts of sexual assault in the first degree for allegedly having sex with a child under age 11; nine counts…

49: Brent Schepp

Child Molestation, Child Rape

April 24, 2022Cajsa LilliehookLeave a comment

Brent Schepp ran uncontested in the Republican primary for Kane County board when he was indicted on 26 counts including 14 counts of criminal sexual assault, 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, and two counts of unlawful delivery of alcohol to a minor. The assaults are alleged to have happened in his home. The articles…

675: April Grace

Enabling, Organizational Cover-Up, Rape Culture

January 13, 2022Cajsa LilliehookLeave a comment

April Grace is a Republican candidate for Oklahoma’s State Superintendant of Public Schools. She also protected an alleged child molester on her staff for several years. When Assistant Athletic Director Ronald Arthur at Shawnee Public Schools where she is Superintendant was arrested for sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old boy, the affidavit included information that he…