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1502: Joe Campbell

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape
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Joe Campbell was hired by Jim Bakker to work at his Morningside Church and given a show on his televangelist network. A well-known youth pastor and head of a children’s Bible camp. He was also known among some to be a serial child predator long protected by the Assemblies of God leadership and churches. Even though people came forward describing sexual abuse by him from the 1970s and 80s, it was not until 2025 that he was arrested after an Oklahoma grand jury indicted him with one count of first-degree rape and one count of lewd or indecent acts involving a child under 16. This is the tip of the iceberg.

1410: Rick Renno

Solicitation of a Minor
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Richard “Rick” Renno was the Treasurer of Benton County, Missouri. In June, 2025, he was charged with enticement or attempted enticement of a child and sexual misconduct involving a child under 15. The investigation began in August, 2024, when accusations were made that an adult man used Grindr to engage in conversations of a fourteen-year-old child.

1252: Brad Nash

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Familial Abuse & Violence, Nonconsensual Recording, Sexual Abuse
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Bradley Nash is the former mayor of Salem, Missouri. (He won with 93% of the vote in 2020.) He was also the Dent Co. fire chief and emergency manager until just before his arrest for child molestation and sodomy.

1203: Paul Schofield

Child Molestation, Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Paul Emerson Schofield was a corrections officer at Jefferson City Correctional Center in Missouri. He and his wife pled guilty to “one count of conspiracy to produce child pornograph and one count of producing child pornography” according to the Department of Justice. The child they sexually assaulted was under twelve during the three years the pair abused them to produce child sexual abuse material. There was a video of them sexually assaulting an unconscious four-year-old child. The DOJ press release is much more detailed.

1190: Mike Bickle

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Grooming, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct
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Three former leaders of International House of Prayer released a public statement on October 28th, 2023, that asked the organization to address the several long-standing allegations of sexual misconduct by Mike Bickle, what they referred to as the “collective and corroborating testimony of several victims.”

1181: Justin Durham

Abuse of Power or Authority, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Coercion, Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault
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Justin Bradley Durham is a former Sheriffs Deputy in Phelps County, Missouri. He was arrested and charged with sexually exploiting two minor girls and recording it, creating and possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material. He was also charged with altering and destroying records to try to cover up his crimes.

1056: Mike Moon

Rape Culture
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Mike Moon is a Missouri Republican state senator who supports and defends child marriage. In 2018, he opposed the bill that raised the marriage age from 15 to 16. In April, 2023, he carried a bill attacking trans children’s rights. He was challenged for his hypocrisy on parental rights since on the one hand, he supports allowing parents to permit a 12-year-old to marry and yet opposed a parent permitting gender-affirming medical care.

1017: Anastasia Dawson

Child Abuse, Child Endangerment, Child Molestation, Child Rape
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Anastasia Dawson was a ward youth leader at an LDS church in Hamilton, Missouri. In February, 2023, she was charged with seven felony sexual abuse crimes involving a sixteen-year-old minor. She has been charged with 2nd degree statutory sodomy, 2nd degree statutory rape, abuse or neglect of a child, 1st degree endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of 4th degree child molestation.