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1042: Nick Johnson

Abuse of Power or Authority, Assault, Child Molestation, Grooming, Organizational Cover-Up, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery, Sexual Misconduct, Solicitation of a Minor
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Nick Johnson was the track coach at Huntington University, a conservative evangelical school in Huntington, Indiana. The track team excelled and won national championships and other recognition. However, there was an extensive record of sexual abuse and the use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs)

999: Scott Christner

Child Molestation
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Scott Christner was a youth pastor at First Baptist Church in Goshen, Indian. He led a group of pre-teen boys called The Olympians. In 2019, one boy came forward and alleged he touched him inappropriately. He was arrested and four more boys came forward. He was charged with ten felony counts of child molestation and two felony counts of sexual misconduct with a minor. The children were ages all under fourteen when they were molested.

931: Alexander Roesly

Solicitation of a Minor
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Alexander Roesly was the youth pastor at Praise Chapel of Church God in Union City, Indiana. He sent messages to thirteen and fifteen-year-old girls asking if they wanted to be “friends with benefits.” The fifteen-year-old attended his church. He was charged with solicitation of a minor for the thirteen-year-old, but not the fifteen-year-old as he was nineteen at the time.

910: Jonathan Myers

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Grooming
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Jonathan Mark Myers was a youth pastor and principal of a parochial school associated with the same church in Edinburgh, Indiana. As principal, he pursued an inappropriate relationship with a young girl. He gave her rides to and from church and began grooming her. Eventually, he began sexually abusing her.

859: Diego Morales

Sexual Assault
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He also won despite two fellow Republican women coming forward to allege sexual misconduct by Morales including forcible kissing. Both women went to Republican Party leadership hoping to deal with it privately to protect the party’s reputation, but the leaders did nothing which is why they went public.

840: Jamey Noel

Custodial Negligence
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Jamey Noel was the Sheriff of Clark County, Indiana and is the Chairman of the Clark County Republican Party. He also was linked to the Oath Keepers in an Anti-Defamation League database, but he denies the association. He was term limited and did not run for re-election in 2022. He was replaced by another Republican, one of his deputies. While he was sheriff, 28 women allege they were sexually assaulted in the county jail.

778: John Lowe

Child Molestation
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John Lowe was the pastor of the New Life Christian Church in Warsaw, Indiana. In 2022, he confessed to adultery in a Sunday sermon. The only problem is that it’s not adultery when the woman is only sixteen. It is child molestation. It is rape. The woman and her husband responded when Lowe confessed, standing…

771: Andrew Wilhoite

Murder
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Andrew Wilhoite won the Republican primary for the Clinton Township Board in Indiana even though he had been charged with his wife’s murder. She had cancer and had recently finished chemotherapy. She found out he had an affair and filed for divorce. He struck her in the head with a flowerpot and threw her body in a nearby creek.

597: Brian Bosma

Coercion, Intimidation, Retaliation, Sexual Harassment
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Brian Bosma was the Speaker of the House in Indiana for six terms. He retired from the legislature in 2020. In 2018, a former intern confirmed that she had a technically consensual sexual relationship with Bosma, but that she felt she was coerced into it. When Bosma learned the story was being investigated, he spent $40,000 to investigate her, having her friends and family questioned. He is accused of using intimidation to attempt to silence her, threatening to release unflattering information to the public.

551: Steven Sumner

Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Coercion, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery, Sexual Misconduct
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Steven Sumner was a Republican county councilman for Madison County, Indiana. He is also the pastor of Lighthouse Baptist Church. He was charged with Child Seduction which means Sumner was in some way the child’s guardian, adoptive parent, adoptive grandparent, custodian, or stepparent. Other charges include child molestation, contributing to delinquency, sexual battery, sexual misconduct, as well as possession of child sexual exploitation material. According to the State Police, a child, younger than sixteen, told them he gave her alcohol and performed sexual acts on her and asked her to reciprocate. Additional charges were added involving a child under 14. The trial is set for February 27, 2023