Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
As well as advocating violence, he has been arrested for practicing it as well. He’s been charged with child abuse for putting one boy in a chokehold and slapping another. This happened in a restaurant and was recorded. The kids were sitting in a booth and he walked up behind them and attacked.
He was arrested again in June, 2024, when he took a baseball bat and beat his adult son. The son called the police. By the time the police arrived, the bat was broken but they saw the bruising on his son’s body.
Dennis Houchin is a retired U. S. Air Force Senior Master Sergeant. Indian River County Sheriff’s Office received a tip that he had child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on his phone.
Jonathan Edward Elwing was the pastor of Palm View Baptist Church in Manatee County, Florida for the past five years. He has been serving as pastor in various places since 2003. He has been charged with eighteen felonies related to his possession, distribution, and manufacture of child sexual abuse material. He filmed himself sexually abusing a child under the age of twelve.
Joel Bruce Searby has been active in Florida Republican politics for many years. He worked for a consulting firm called Data Targeting where he worked for many Republican campaigns. Most recently, he was a board member of Education First for Newberry, a group trying to turn Newberry’s public schools into charter schools.
He was arrested in June, 2024, charged with charges of lewd or lascivious conduct, use of a computer to solicit a minor, enticing a minor to travel, and unlawful use of a two-way communication device. He was attempting to lure a fifteen-year-old boy in order to molest him.
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.
Commander Gregory McLean served as the executive officer of the littoral combat ship Minneapolis-St. Paul. A Lt. Commander in the U. S. Navy. Rhode Island investigators received a tip that an account called twisteddesire3210 and 3213 offered to share child sex abuse material. They traced the account to McLean which is when the FBI and NCIS took over the investigation and served warrants and found much more than they expected.
In 2024, the police have five former altar boys who have come forward and the statute of limitations has changed to reflect the fact that most people do not report they were abused as children until far into adulthood. Only 8% of victims report within a year.
Charles Oswald Lake was a Lake Alfred City Commissioner at the time of his arrest in April, 2024. He is also a former Lake Alfred Mayor. He has resigned since his arrest after a search warrant turned up more than 300 images of Child Sexual Abuse Material.
Additional investigation added another 2896 charges.
Monte LaVelle Chitty was the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Marathon, Florida. He had ministered in churches in 25 other states. In early March, he was arrested for drugging and sexually assaulting a minor. He was released on $75,000 bond and skipped town.