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986: Christopher Schroder

Enabling, Rape Culture

Christopher Schroder was a Cincinnati police officer. In January 2023, he pleaded guilty  to five misdemeanor counts of dereliction of duty. During more than a decade serving on the Personal Crimes Unit, he failed to turn in rape kits and DNA swabs, performed inadequate investigations of crimes with vulnerable victims such a minors and people with developmental disabilities, and sometimes performed no investigation whatsoever. There were 47 cases of dereliction and a 48th by the time the case came to court.

901: James Mason

Child Molestation, Child Sexual Abuse Material

James Mason is a neo-Nazi, a member of Atomwaffen. He’s an ideological leader of the American Nazis, arguing that mass action and organizing will never bring them to power and advocating for terrorism to destabilize the government instead.

In 1991, he was charged with creating pornographic images with a minor, a 15-year-old girl. He raped the girl. He got a $500 fine and a suspended sentence. In 1994, he was again arrested, after threatening his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend and her current boyfriend with a gun. He was only charged with weapons crimes, a plea bargain.

890: Matthew Fairfield

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Matthew Fairfield was a member of the Oath Keepers. He was arrested in the course of a mortgage fraud investigation. The mortgage fraud task force executed a search warrant and discovered an arsenal. He had a bomb and many other weapons they assumed he had stolen from the military. But that’s not all, when they searched they also found Child Sex Abuse Material (CSAM)

882: Steve Wukmer

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Steve Wukmer was on the staff at Agape Christian Boarding School, infamous for allegations of abuse, neglect, and trafficking. He was also a children’s minister in Ohio.

He was arrested in November 2022 on 215 charges related to child sex abuse material. Bail was set at $12.9 million.

862: John W. Adams

Child Sexual Abuse Material

John W. Adams was the pastor at the anti-gay Calvary Freewill Baptist Church in Darbydale, Ohio. In 2007, he was arrested by police at his home for downloading child sexual abuse material. He was caught because police were monitoring a CSAM website. A year later, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years probation with no internet access and having to register as a sex offender.

806: Dave Yost

Rape Culture

Dave Yost is the Attorney General of Ohio. After news reports of a 10-year-old having to travel out of Ohio to get an abortion after she was made pregnant by rape, he took it upon himself to deny that it ever happened. I wonder if the man arrested for raping her claim in his defense that the Attorney General said he does not exist.

Dave Yost is the Attorney General of Ohio. After news reports of a 10-year-old having to travel out of Ohio to get an abortion after she was made pregnant by rape, he took it upon himself to deny that it ever happened. I wonder if the man arrested for raping her claim in his defense that the Attorney General said he does not exist. Yost made no apologies for calling her rape a hoax.

790: David Walker

Child Molestation, Child Rape

David Walker is a former youth pastor who has preached at Church Alive International in Cleveland and at The Dwelling Place Family Worship Center in North Olmsted. He was also a math teacher and coach at Cleveland Christian Academy. But in 2020, he and his wife were indicted for sexual abuse of a minor girl.

759: John Gray

Solicitation of a Minor

John Gray was the president of the Goshen, Ohio, school board when he was caught in a Predator Catchers Muncie sting. He had served five terms on the school board. He showed up in Farmland, Indiana to meet who he thought would be an eleven-year-old girl. He was charged with soliciting a minor.

742: Jeffrey Armstrong

Child Sexual Abuse Material

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.

685: Edward Burgess

Child Indecency, Child Molestation

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.