Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Mark Collins was a high school math teacher at St. Helens until his retirement. After an investigation of sexual abuse allegations at the high school, Collins was arrested and charged with two counts of sexual abuse in the 2nd degree and one count of attempted sexual abuse in the 2nd degree.
Eric Stearns was a high school choir teacher in St. Helens, Oregon. He was accused of sexual abusing six students from 2015 to the present. He was arrested in November 2024.
Ryan C. Capps was a teacher at Durant Middle School in Oklahoma. In 2022, he enticed a student to engage in sexual activity which he used to produce child sexual exploitation material. He was convicted on May 1, 2024, in a jury trial.
Clayton Sallee was an Ag teacher at Farmington Public School, in Farmington, Arkansas. In September, the school received a report that engaged in inappropriate conduct with a student. They immediately reported it to the police and suspended Sallee. He was arrested on October 7th and released on bail.
Jonathan Shaheen was a creative pastor at Timber Creek Church in Colorado Springs and a music teacher at School of Rock, a music lesson store also in Colorado Springs. In September 2023, he was arrested for attempting to sexually exploit and abuse a nine-year-old child. He was communicating with an ex-girlfriend to arrange having sex with her and her daughter who was nine.
Ryan Don Ivy was a youth minister at Bluff Dale Baptist Church and an employee at Bluff Dale Independent School District was accused of online solicitation involving text messages he sent to a 13-year-old middle school student. Incredibly, despite being shown the text messages he sent including text acknowledging he could go to jail for what he was doing, eleven of twelve juries wanted to acquit him. One juror, thankfully, held firm and the trial ended in a mistrial.
Thomas Louis Deane was a History/Social Studies teacher and lacrosse coach at Canterbury School, a private school in Ft. Myers, Florida. In February, 2022, a woman reported her son was the victim of a sex crime.
Police investigated and found evidence showing Deane had found the minor on Grindr and then communicating on SnapChat, arranged to meet the child in person. He was arrested in April, 2022, and charged with lewd and lascivious behavior on a victim under the age of 16 and a second charge of lewd and lascivious behavior on a victim between the ages of 12 and 16. A month later, he was rearrested, charged with 28 counts of possession of child sexual abuse material.
He was was put on administrative leave by the school. According to reports, the student is eighteen. However, a teacher or coach is in a position of power and trust and abusing that power to pursue a student is a crime.
Christopher J. Ballard was a teacher at Journey Academy, a Christian school in Centennial, Colorado. He was arrested in early March 2024 after the director of the Academy went to police alleging a child was sexually assaulted on May 2nd, that children were forced to watch Child Sexual Abuse Material, and that children were forced to run naked as punishment.
Dustin Glenn Ledford was a school guidance counselor at Fallston Elementary School in Cleveland County in North Carolina. He was arrested in February 2024 for sexually abusing a minor.