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1019: Jeffrey Bedwell

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Grooming

Jeffrey Bedwell was a pastor at Chets Creek Church in Jacksonville, Florida. He was arrested in 2021, accused of grooming and sexually assaulting a child since she was twelve until she was seventeen. He got to know her when she was twelve and began seriously grooming her when she was thirteen. When she was fourteen, he began raping her. He raped her until she was seventeen.

1018: Frank Pavone

Grooming, Sexual Battery, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct

Frank Pavone founded Priests for Life, an anti-abortion group, and chaired Catholics for Trump. The Vatican laicized or defrocked him without appeal for blasphemous communications on social media and disobedience of his bishop. He placed an aborted fetus on the altar and made a video. He is also an election denier.

1008: Daniel Franklin

Nonconsensual Recording, Secret Photos or Recordings

Daniel Gilbert Franklin was a high school track coat at North Haven Bay high school when he was arrested for secretly taping a fourteen-year-old girl as she changed clothes in his home. He admitted to making a secret recording and having done so several times. He was charged with video voyeurism.

1007: Jonathan High

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Jonathan High was a deacon at Antioch Revival Church in Perry, Florida, until his arrest for secretly recording two boys, ten and eleven, engaging in sex acts in the church bathroom. He was caught when Verizon reported a tip, in August 2021, that a cloud storage accounts seemed to have uploaded child sex abuse material. They did a search and found multiple videos on his phone. They also discovered that he had produced the CSAM himself.

1: Donald Trump

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Indecency, Child Rape, Coercion, Improper Conduct or Comments, Rape, Rape Culture, Retaliation, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct

Donald Trump was the 45th president of the United States. He is also a serial sexual predator. He was found guilty of sexual assault in 2023. Twenty-six women have accused him of sexual assault. Trump claimed that he could sexually assault women without consequence in an Access Hollywood interview.

979: Rafael Cuevas

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery

Rafael Cuevas was the pastor of Temple of Prayer Assembly of God church, a church his father built with his own hands. In 2021, he was arrested and charged with sexually abusing a child under the age of twelve from 2017 to 2020. His official charges were two counts of sexual battery and six counts of lewd and lascivious molestation against a victim under 12 years old.

975: Barry S. Edwards

Abuse of Power or Authority, Coercion

Barry S. Edwards was a Florida State University professor when he organized a fundraiser for Giuliani’s presidential run. However, he withdrew from the Pinellas County Republican effort when it was revealed that he was accused of coercion. A nineteen-year-old student claimed Edwards got drunk, showed him porn, and asked him to masturbate. The student claimed Edwards threatened him with bad grades. Later, the student asked to dismiss the case.

961: William Ray Pruitt

Child Molestation, Sexual Battery, Stalking/Harassment

William Ray Pruitt was the police chief of Center Hill, Florida, for about 18 months in the late 90s. It was controversial. In 2008, he ran as a Republican for the state House of Representatives. In December, 2022, he was arrested for sexually battering a 14-year-old girl and then stalking her, threatening her to prevent her from coming forward. She did not come forward for two years because she was terrified of him.

960: George Alexander Diaz Menges

Assault, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual Battery

George Alexander Diaz Menges was a campaign worker for Manual Asensio, who dropped out just before the for Congressional District Three Republican primary. He was arrested in December 2022 and charged with four counts of sexual battery, two counts of aggravated battery, eight counts of battery and a charge of committing or facilitating a kidnapping.