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744: David Bernard

Child Sexual Abuse Material
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David Bernard was one of Greybull, Wyoming’s five councilors. He was elected in 2020, began his term in 2021 and one year later was arrested for selling child sexual abuse material. In December 2020, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children was told a user uploaded 85 files of child sex abuse material. They identified Bernard and gave the info to the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation. When questioned Bernard admitted he was getting files and selling them for $100, using bitcoin.

While awaiting trial for those twenty charges thanks to a search of his laptop he got another 51 charges against him, a total of 71 felony charges.

743: Ronnie Hale

Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Ronnie Hale was an alderman in Southaven, Mississippi. He resigned after he was indicted for transporting child sexual abuse material across state lines, from Tennessee to Mississippi. The CSAM was found when he was arrested and searched for offering a woman money for sex.

742: Jeffrey Armstrong

Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Jeffrey Armstrong is a former mayor of Rockford, Ohio. He’s also served on the village council and the school board. He was a member of the County Republican Central Committee, as well. On Facebook, he engaged in Direct Message conversations with a person he believed was, like him, interested in sexual relations with underage girls, but the person he thought was a fellow pedophile was actually and FBI agent. The ruse continued for 10 days with exchange of child sexual abuse material. Armstrong declared he knew two girls, ages 5 and 6, whom he was planning to engage in sexual activity. He also bragged about previous sexual activity with minors.

741: Gregory Nies

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Solicitation of a Minor
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Gregory Nies was on the town council and three-time mayoral candidate. He was well-liked and active in the community. However, he was also preying on children. In 2009, a girl went to the police and told them she had been sent inappropriate messages from someone posing as an 18-year-old woman. The police investigated, found the IP traced back to Nies. A search warrant revealed he had been communicating with several minor girls, posing as a young girl himself to persuade them to send him nude photos. His computer also had child sexual abuse material. They also discovered he was sexually abusing a young girl.

738: Jack Shay

Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Jack Shay was once the mayor of Ketchikan and the Ketchikan borough. He served on the school board and was even “citizen of the year.” He dropped off a computer for repair and child sexual abuse images were found. Employees are required to report this. The police were notified and he was arrested and charged with 91 counts of possession of child sexual abuse materia. He agreed to plead guilty to 7 counts of possession of CSAM and was sentenced to 35 years with 18 suspended. As he was 81 when he was sentenced in 2012, that is effectively a life sentence.

714: Neil Gardner

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Harassment
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Neil Gardner was the Highway Superintendent in Stephentown, New York. In March, 2022, he settled with a woman who sued under New York’s Child Victims Act. The woman claimed he sexually abused her from the age of twelve and that he took explicit photos of her “that he would brag about and sell.” A second woman came forward with a similar experience of being repeatedly raped as a child.

699: Bernie Alimenti

Coercion
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Bernie Alimenti was a city councilman in Fort Myers, Florida. He offered to help a woman move from one public housing apartment to another in exchange for sex. She was an informant and the conversation was taped. He was arrested and charged with influence-peddling for sex. Prosecutors asked for a year in prison, but the judge gave him five years probation and community service.

685: Edward Burgess

Child Indecency, Child Molestation
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Edward Burgess was a city councilman in Carlisle, Ohio. He was also president at the Lions Club where he fondled a child. He was arrested and charged with gross sexual imposition. The child molester originally claimed that the eight-year-old girl “came on to him.” For that alone, his sentence of thirty days is woefully inadequate.

684: Gary Lee Hansen

Child Molestation
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Gary Lee Hansen served on the Sac City City Council until 2015. In 2017, he was charged with sexually abusing a six-year-old child. The child reported it when she was twelve. According to the police report, Hansen admitted to the abuse. He was convicted on two counts of lascivious acts with a child