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1014: Stephen Arthur Morris

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Grooming, Solicitation of a Minor
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Stephen Arthur Morris was the pastor of Oliver’s Grove Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist conservative church. In July 2019, he was arrested and charged with raping a thirteen-year-old girl who attended his church. She reported this when she was eighteen. In October 2019, two additional women came forward to report his attempts to abuse them when they were minors. In 2020, they also charged him with possessing child sexual abuse materials after searching his electronics.

937: Benjamin Damron

Child Molestation, Child Rape
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Benjamin Damron was a youth pastor at different churches in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, a position he used to get close to young boys whom he sexually abused. He was arrested in November 2022. He was charged with nine counts of indecent liberties with a child and one count of sexual battery,

894: Michael Alan Jones

Child Molestation, Rape
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Michael Alan Jones is an insurrectionist and joined the Proud Boys on January 6th. He is also a member of the Patriot Front. When police pulled him and a colleague over for failing to make a left-hand-turn signal they found an arsenal in the car. This was more serious because Jones is a convicted felon, convicted of statutory rape in 2019 for molesting a 14 and a 15-year-old. He is banned from possessing the weapons.

870: Sandy Smith

Familial Abuse & Violence
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Sandy Smith won the Republican primary for North Carolina’s First Congressional District only to lose in the general. Two ex-husbands and her daughter have accused her of domestic violence. Her daughter filed for a protective order claiming that Smith “held me down by my hair and punched me in the face with a closed fist.” The protection order has been dismissed and she and her daughters are, according to Smith, on good terms.

829: Jonathan Young

Child Rape
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Jonathan Young was the Sunday School teacher at Firstborn Baptist Church in Benson, North Carolina. In 2022, he was convicted of sexually abusing three girls at church and on church buses. One of the survivors, Brianna Holland, went public and said the abuse began when she was nine and continued for two years. The youngest victim was only seven.

805: Peter van Vliet

Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Peter van Vliet is a Republican who was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Holyoke City Commission in 2014 and was re-elected, most recently in 2019. He also coached cross country, youth lacrosse and junior varsity basketball at Annunciation Catholic School, though not since Spring 2019. In December 2019, he was arrested and charged with 12 counts of possessing child sex abuse material (CSAM). He had 12 videos of children as young as two engaged in sex acts with other children or adults.

802: Greg Murphy

Rape Culture
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Greg Murphy has represented North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District since 2019. He got national attention when he responded to the Dodd decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, defending a ban on all abortions, including in the case of rape and incest. He tweeted “No one forces anyone to have sex.” A lot of people don’t believe rape can happen, but they seldom say it right out loud. He deleted the tweet, but did he delete the bias behind it?

783: John William Lovelace

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape, Sexual Battery
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John William Lovelace was the pastor at Faith Baptist Church in Ayden, North Carolina. In a joint investigation, Winterville Police four counts of 2nd degree forcible sex and three counts of sexual battery while Pitt County Sheriff’s office charged him with two counts of statutory sex offense with a child less than 15 and indecent liberties with a minor. Bail was set at $12.4 million.