Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
In 2014, Gabe Carl LeBlanc was hired as deputy sheriff in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, and promoted to lieutenant in 2021. In March 2024, he was placed on administrative leave after being informed of an investigation, and has since been arrested and charged with producing child sexual abuse material.
He was arrested in June 2023, charged with twelve felonies in Grant Parish, Louisiana. The charges are three counts each of oral sexual battery, first degree rape, aggravated crimes against nature, and indecent behavior with juveniles. He is held on $950,000 bond.
Jacob Desormeaux was a Lafayette, Louisiana, police officer. He was arrested in April, 2023, for allegedly showing a video with sexual content to two minors. He was suspended and his police authority revoked. Desormeaux was previously disciplined for turning off his body cam before a “tussle” with a civilian at a restaurant who had an “unauthorized cup.” He was suspended for twenty days without pay then. He turned off his body camera five times in 2020.
Milton Martin III was the pastor of the First Pentacostal Church in Chalmette, LA. In March, 2023, he was arrested for raping a child “on multiple occasions” between 2010 and 2013. The victim was between the ages of fourteen and seventeen. He was charged with sexual battery and carnal knowledge of a juvenile.
In April, 2023, he was arrested again after another victim came forward alleging they were raped by Martin in 1991. He was charged with indecent behavior with a juvenile.
Melvin Slack was a Republican candidate for mayor of Shreveport. He dropped out of the race for a couple of days after a woman sought a restraining order, but he got back in because he thought quitting dishonored the memory of his son. He lost.
Joshua Schopp was a candidate for the Central Community School Board. He was arrested in August 2022, after exchanging messages with an underage girl on social media. She told him she was 17 at first, but when the conversation turned sexual, she informed him she was only 15. It was after that he sent her a picture and video of his genitalia. He asked her to send him nude pictures and to meet with him for sex. He was charged with indecent behavior with a juvenile and with solicitation of a minor.
Jeffrey Cashe is a Family Court Judge in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. In 2022, he sparked national outrage when he gave ordered a woman to pay child support to her rapist.
John Raymond is a member of the St. Tammany Parish Republican Committee and formerly served on the Executive Committee. He is also on the Louisiana Republican Central Committee. He ran, unsuccessfully, for Congress. He was also the first voted off the island on Survivor. He is the founding pastor of New Horizon Church which owns Bridge Radio and Lakeside Christian Academy. As a teacher and headmaster at Lakeside Christian Academy, he has more than once been charged with child abuse.
Ed Reinhardt was the mayor of Lockport, Louisiana. He resigned after his constant sexual harassment of a city employee was investigated by the town attorney. It got so bad she was asking other workers to stay in the office so she would not be alone with him.
Jason Boyet was a Louisiana state trooper who was convicted of distribution of child sexual abuse material. He was Trooper of the Year in 2018. A tip that he was producing and distributing child sexual exploitation material led to an investigation and, eventually, to pleading guilty to distribution.