Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Le’Veon Bell is a former NFL player who endorsed Trump, threatening to leave the country if Kamala Harris were elected. His misogyny was on loud and open display as he insulted Harris while rallying for a serial adulterer, adjudicated rapist, and sexual predators. Bell joined Trump in being adjudicated a rapist in March 2025. Also someone found guilty of child sexual abuse and incest.
John Denzel was the “safe environment manager” for St. Brigid of Kildare, a Catholic school in Dublin, Ohio. In that role, he did background checks on potential employees and volunteers. He also did sexual abuse awareness training for staff, parents, and volunteers. The Internet Archive has a description of the program that used to be on the schools site. He had worked at the school for many years in different roles, including providing supervision for “latchkey” kids. He was fired in 2024 after his arrest for fifteen charges relating to child sexual abuse material.
Rodney Creech is a Republican Ohio state representative who is now running for Ohio senate despite being sanctioned by the Republican-dominated Ohio House and asked to resign by the Republican House Speaker over allegations of sexual misconduct and imposition made by a teenage relative.
Gary Thomas Keesee, Jr. was the Chief Media Officer at the Faith Life Church in New Albany, Ohio. His mother is also a Knox County Commissioner. He was charged with sexually abusing three minor children.
Jeremy Chesser was a Springfield, Ohio, firefighter. In August, 2023, he was arrested and charged with producing and distributing child sexual abuse material.
Bob Young is a Republican state representative in Ohio. In July, he was indicted on two misdemeanor charges of domestic violence and another misdemeanor charge of assault. He admitted his behavior was inappropriate but denied it was criminal. He was asked to resign by the Speaker, but he refused.
In 2018, he approached a woman walking to her dorm after 1 a.m. and said he was a police officer and would walk her home. She demurred, but he insisted, so when she got to her dorm she went to the check-in and security chased him off. They got a picture so the police put it out and were inundated with tips identifying Cartharn. After all, he just ran for City Council.
Leslie Shawn Brock was appointed to the Lockland City Council in 2019. He served on the finance and safety and the health and welfare committees. In September 2022, he was arrested for possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material. He was uploading CSAM and the Internet Crimes Against Children tipped off the Sheriff’s Office. After a search, he was charged with ten counts of child obscenity and two counts of pandering with child pornography.
The Enquirer article has more details on the CSAM but it is disturbing and overly specific, so be advised it may be triggering.
Dennis Wayne Laferty has been a United Methodist pastor at six churches in Ohio since 2014. That may seem like a lot but five were part-time so it is not an indication of problem pastors being relocated. In March 2023, he was indicted sexually abusing one or more victims. The indictment is for five counts of sexual battery (felony), one count of gross sexual imposition with a victim under 13 (felony) , and one count of sexual imposition with a victim 13 or older but under 16 (misdemeanor). This is alleged to have happened between Nov. 30, 2019, and Jan. 30, 2023.
Phillip Briggs was the mayor of Spencerville, Ohio, until he resigned after his arrest for secretly recording two girls while they were undressing. He is alleged to have done this five times during May and June, 2021. The girls went to police, reporting that their mother’s boyfriend had been secretly recording them while they undressed. He was arrested in January, 2023 for pandering sexually-oriented material. Later he was indicted by a grand jury and charged with five felony counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material. He resigned in February.